... with the reasons why wheat tended to be such a good, was made by the Rev. Henry Beeke, who was the first Oxford professor to lecture on political economy.* In modern terminology, Beeke appears to be assuming that the worker’s objective is to fill his belly. As wheat is much more efficient...

..., but no records of these have survived. Formal lectures of some kind appear to have been given by the Reverend Henry Beeke, Professor of Modern History at Oxford. After Beeke, the Reverend Robert Nares lectured on political economy in his history classes, a task for which he felt ill prepared...

... of the Wealth of Nations, the two subsequent major national-income estimates made in England at the end of the eighteenth century were still in the tradition of Petty and King. The first of these was by the Reverend Henry Beeke. Believing firmly in William Pitt’s proposal for a general income tax...