Adam Anderson (economist)

Adam Anderson (1692 or 1693 – 10 January 1765) was a Scottish economist.

He was a clerk for forty years or more in South Sea House, the headquarters of the South Sea Company; at his death at Clerkenwell in 1765, he had risen to chief clerk for the Stock and New Annuities of the South Sea Company.^[1]

His life's work, commonly known as Anderson's History of Commerce,^[2] was published shortly before his death. The long, actual title is An Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time.^[3] The title page goes on to say: "Containing, an History of the great Commercial Interests of the British Empire. To which is prefixed, an Introduction, Exhibiting a View of the Ancient and Modern State of Europe; of the Importance of Our Colonies; and of the Commerce, Shipping, Manufactures, Fisheries, &c. of Great Britain and Ireland: and their Influence on the Landed Interest. With an Appendix, containing the Modern Politico-Commercial Geography of the several Countries of Europe."

The work was reissued with a somewhat shorter title in four folio volumes in 1787.^[4]

The freemason James Anderson may have been his brother.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Anderson, Adam". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

• Chambers, Robert; Thomson, Thomas Napier (1857). "Anderson, Adam" . A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen. Vol. 1. Glasgow: Blackie and Son. pp. 52–53 – via Wikisource.

Wikisource has the text of the 1885–1900 Dictionary of National Biography's article about Adam Anderson.

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Anderson, Adam".

• Historical and Chronological Deduction of the Origin of Commerce (1787):
  • volume one
  • volume two
  • volume three
  • volume four

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