Biography of Petty

William Petty; GG. William Petty was born in the year in the city of Romsi, in the south of England. Father and grandfather William Petty were tailors [14]. In childhood, studies at a city school, many studied disciplines, and especially Latin Petty comprehended with noticeable ease. At the age of 14, he left the house, hiring Jungh on the ship. However, due to a fracture of the leg, a year later he was landed in the north of France.

Thanks to Knowledge of Latin, William Petty was admitted to the Kan's college, where he was additionally able to master Greek and French, mathematics and astronomy. In the year, William Petty returns to London. In the year, he leaves England and moves to the continent to continue his studies. The next four years of training take place in Paris and Amsterdam. William Petty completed the medical education in his homeland, having studied for another three years at the University of Oxford.

In the year, William Petty receives a patent for a copy car invented by him [14]. In his first essay, “Advice for the Advancement of Some Particular Parts of Learning”, a more practical direction of education was recommended. Among the main works of William Petty are: “Treatise on taxes and training camps”, “Political anatomy of Ireland”, “Word Word”, “A few words about money” in the year, in the age of only 27 years, William Petty received the degree of physics, became a professor of anatomy of one of the English colleges.

In the year, he becomes a doctor with the commander in chief of the English army in Ireland. Since that time, the life of a modest medic has changed dramatically.

Having shown the enviable enterprise in the calculations of W. Petty himself, he managed to earn pounds for the usual, at first glance, in a row, a government in a row for him to personally prepare land plans for subsequent measurements and drawing up a map of conquered Ireland. Petty was able to arrange in his name the buying of the earth at different ends of this island for all those officers and soldiers who could not or did not want to wait for his land allotment.

Petty was a member of the English parliament; He also became famous as a scientist, inventor and entrepreneur. In the year, William Petty was produced in knights, and in G. naval architecture appeared among his main interests; William worked on evidence of the superiority of two -building vessels. In M Pety he returned to Ireland, where he spent the next 12 years [14].

Petty switched to social sciences and did not change the direction of activity anymore. First of all, William strove for the prosperity of Ireland; In his works a number of reforms were described to help the state -in -law of their years of their years. In the year, William Petty returned to London, where he died in the year. The historical role of Petti lies primarily in the fact that he acted as the initiator of the direction from which the English classical political economy came out.

Modern bourgeois economists, recognizing Petty as a great scientist and a bright person, often refuse him the role of the predecessor of Smith, Ricardo and Marx. It is William Petty who is considered the founder of the “principle of non -interference” in relation to political activity. Japanese scientist Sh. Matsukava extremely highly appreciated the role of Petty and wrote, for example, that “he was the greatest scientist of the XVII century.

Paying special attention to the labor theory of the value of Petti, Matsukawa expressed the opinion that there were no scientists between him and Smith who would make a contribution comparable to Petty in the formation of this fundamental economic theory. At the same time, Matsukawa seeks to reveal the essence and reasons for the contradictions of the labor theory of the value of Petty, in particular his characteristic duality in resolving the issue of the source of value, which is either human labor as such, then labor and earth.

Matsukava compared this phenomenon with the explanation of K. Marx and the analysis of the inconsistency and inconsistency of Smith in his theory of value. For historians and economists, the Petty archive remains an inexhaustible source of valuable materials of various kinds. From time to time, work based on such materials appears in the press. They replenish our knowledge about various aspects of the scientific and practical activities of Petty.