Robert Hamilton (economist)

Robert Hamilton FRSE (11 June 1743, Edinburgh – 14 July 1829) was a Scottish mathematician and political economist.

For many years, however, by private arrangement with his colleague Professor Patrick Copland, Hamilton taught the class of mathematics.

[4] Hamilton's most important work is the Essay on the National Debt, which appeared in 1813 and was undoubtedly the first to expose the economic fallacies involved in Pitt's policy of a sinking fund.

A posthumous volume published in 1830, The Progress of Society, is also of great ability, and is a very effective treatment of economical principles by tracing their origin and position in the development of social life.

[5] His uncle was the Very Rev Prof Robert Hamilton FRSE, twice Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.