Summary
Joseph Shield Nicholson, FBA FRSE (9 November 1850 – 12 May 1927) was an English economist.
Joseph Shield Nicholson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 November 1850 |
| Died | 12 March 1927 (aged 76) |
| Awards | Guy Medal in Silver |
Life edit
Nicholson was born in Wrawby in Lincolnshire on 9 November 1850 the only son of Mary Anne Grant and her husband Rev Thomas Nicholson, minister of Banbury. He was educated at Lewisham School in London.[1]
Nicholson studied Logic and Metaphysics at King's College London and the University of Edinburgh, then studied Moral Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and Heidelberg University. He was a private tutor at Cambridge from 1876 to 1880 coming to fame in 1877 when he won the Cambridge Cobden Club prize for his essay "The Effects of Machinery on Wages".[2]
In 1880 he became Professor of political economy at the University of Edinburgh. At this time he lived at 15 Jordan Lane in Morningside.[3] He was the first President of the Scottish Society of Economists, serving from its creation in 1897 until 1903.[4]
In 1884 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were George Chrystal, Alexander Crum Brown, Alexander Buchan and Peter Guthrie Tait.[5]
in 1918, he was awarded the Guy Medal in Silver by the Royal Statistical Society.
In later life he lived at 3 Belford Park near Dean Village in Edinburgh.[6]
In 1925, Nicholson resigned his chair due to ill health and died in Edinburgh on 12 May 1927.[7] He is buried with his wife, Jane (Jeannie) Walmsley Hodgson, in the 20th-century extension to Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, in the central section.
Works edit
Nicholson's writings represent a compromise between the methods of the historical school of German economics and those of the English deductive school. In his principal work, Principles of Political Economy (three volumes, 1893–1901), he closely follows John Stuart Mill in his selection of material,[8] but employs statistical and historical discussion, instead of the abstract reasoning from simple assumption that characterises Mill's work.
- Effects of Machinery on Wages (1878)
- Tenant's Gain not Landlord's Loss (1883)
- The Silver Question (1886)
- The Revival of Marxism (1920), final book.[9]
- Money and Monetary Problems (1888)
- Historical Progress and Ideal Socialism (1894)
- Strikes and Social Problems (1896)
- Elements of Political Economy (1903)
- History of the English Corn Laws (1904)
- Rates and Taxes (1905)
- Rents, Wages, and Profits in Agriculture and Rural Depopulation (1906)
- A Project of Empire (1909)[10]
- Tales from Ariosto (1913)
- Life and Genius of Ariosto (1914)
- War finance (1917)
Nicholson also wrote three romances:
- A Dreamer of Dreams (1889)
- Thoth (1888)
- Toxar (1890)[11]
References edit
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ^ "Joseph Shield Nicholson - oi". oxfordindex.oup.com. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1885
- ^ Hutton, Alan (2006). "A Scottish tradition of applied economics in the twentieth century". In Alexander Dow, Sheila Dow (ed.). The history of Scottish economic thought. London: Routledge. pp. 237–238. ISBN 0415344379.
- ^ Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783 – 2002 (PDF). The Royal Society of Edinburgh. July 2006. ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ^ Edinburgh Post Office Directory 1910–11
- ^ W. R. Scott, "Nicholson, Joseph Shield (1850–1927)", rev. John Maloney, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004) Retrieved 8 August 2016
- ^ Hadley, Arthur T. (1894). "Principles of Political Economy . J. Shield Nicholson". Journal of Political Economy. 2 (3): 477–478. doi:10.1086/250238. ISSN 0022-3808.
- ^ Groenewegen, Peter. "Joseph Shield Nicholson (1850-1927): An early student of Marshall at Cambridge, later quite critical of Marshall and his Economics" (PDF). History of Economic Thought Society of Australia. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
- ^ Meredith, H. O. (1910). "Review of A Project of Empire by J. Shield Nicholson". The Economic Journal. 20 (77): 46–50. doi:10.2307/2220580. ISSN 0013-0133. JSTOR 2220580.
- ^ W. R. Scott: ‘Nicholson, Joseph Shield... In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: OUP, 2004). Retrieved 9 November 2010. Subscription required.
External links edit
Joseph Shield Nicholson
- Works by Joseph Shield Nicholson at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Joseph Shield Nicholson at Internet Archive
- Works by Joseph Shield Nicholson at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Portraits of Nicholson (National Portrait Gallery, England)
- William Augustus Guy medal
- John Shield Nicholson - The University of Sydney
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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