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Over a twelve-year period a distinguished supervisory committee from the University of Oxford, with a grant from the British Academy, has coordinated the work of 10,000 specialists worldwide to recreate one of the great English reference works. The result is the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography--a collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of men and women who have shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000.

55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.

This book is an outstanding collection of biographies of famous Canadian men. Hundreds of names are featured inside, with some whose contributions may have already been lost to history. The book is organized in alphabetical order, and features these individuals, amongst many others: Richard Pim, Evan John Price, John Ratcliffe, David W. Robb, Willis Russell, Henri C. Saint-Pierre, and Noah Shakespeare.

All the major schools of American economic thought are represented, ranging from the Constitutional school to the Keynesian and the Chicago School. A significant number of the subjects are female, including figures such as Anna Schwartz, Mabel Timlin, Mabel Newcomer, Margaret Gilpin Reid, Rose Friedman and Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter, highlighting the role that women have played in the development of American economic thought. More generally, the dictionary includes many minor but important figures who have contributed to that development, ranging from William Penn and Cotton Mather to Augustus M. Kelley and Leon Marshall. Individually, the entries capture important and often overlooked contributions to the development of economic thought in America; collectively, they encapsulate the rich diversity of that thought and the influences that have been at play on American economic thinking over four centuries.