William Playfair

(1759-1823)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Playfair, William, 1759-1823 NRA: Playfair William (1759-1823) Publicist DNB: Playfair, William (1759-1823), inventor of statistical graphs and writer on political economy LBT ID: WiPlayf1823 VIAF ID: 64366640 LOC ID: n85067255	B/BAP: 1759-09-22 DIED: 1823-02-11
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The younger brother of John Playfair; he was an economist and author of Regulation of the Interest of Money (1785) and Decline and Fall of Powerful and Wealthy Nations (1805).
REFERENCES TO William Playfair: Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 37