Donald Rutherford (economist)

Not to be confused with Donald Rutherford (philosopher).

Donald Rutherford
Born	(1942-09-05)5 September 1942 Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Died	4 September 2023(2023-09-04) (aged 80) Edinburgh, Scotland
Resting place	Church of St Michael and All Saints, Edinburgh
Education	Queen's College, Oxford (PhD)
Known for	works on history of economic thought
Parents	George Rutherford (father) Lilian Rutherford (mother)
Relatives	Malcolm and David (brothers)
Scientific career
Fields	economics
Institutions	University of Edinburgh

Donald Rutherford (1942–2023) was a British economist and Lecturer in Economics at the University of Edinburgh.

Biography

He was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford. Donald Rutherford was Lecturer (1969–2009) and subsequently honorary lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. Rutherford is known for his writings on the history of economic thought and Scottish economics.^[1][2][3]

Books

• Suspicions of Markets: Critical Attacks from Aristotle to the Twenty-First Century. Palgrave Macmillan. 2016. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-40808-8.
• Maynard's World (2014)
• Routledge Dictionary of Economics (1st ed.). London and New York: Routledge. 1992 – via Internet Archive., 2nd edition (2002); 3rd edition (2013). Routledge
• In the Shadow of Adam Smith: Founders of Scottish Economics 1700-1900. Palgrave Macmillan. 2012 – via Internet Archive.
• Economics: The Key Concepts. Routledge. 2007.
• "Malthus and Three Approaches to Solving the Population Problem". Population (English Edition, 2002-). 62 (2): 213–237. 2007. JSTOR 27645305.
• "Les trois approches de Malthus pour résoudre le problème démographique". Population (French Edition, 2002-). 62 (2): 253–280. 2007. JSTOR 20451011.
• Donald Rutherford, ed. (2005). Biographical Dictionary of British Economists. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum. ISBN 1-84371-030-7. 2 volumes
• Collected Works of Nassau William Senior (ed.) (1998)

References

1. Aspromourgos, Tony (June 2014). "Donald Rutherford, In the Shadow of Adam Smith: Founders of Scottish Economics 1700–1900 (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. vii, 344, US$95 (hb), US$40 (pb). ISBN 978-0-230-25209-7 (hb); 978-0-230-25210-3 (pb)". Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 36 (2): 253–255. doi:10.1017/S105383721400025X. ISSN 1053-8372. S2CID 153389878.
2. "Donald Rutherford, In the Shadow of Adam Smith: Founders of Scottish Economics 1700-1900". The History of Economic Thought (in Japanese). 56 (1): 132–134. 2014. doi:10.5362/jshet.56.1_132.
3. Saether, Arild (2017). Natural Law and the Origin of Political Economy: Samuel Pufendorf and the History of Economics. Taylor & Francis. p. 263. ISBN 9781317207702.

External links

• "Passing of Donald Rutherford - The School of Economics is saddened to share the news that a former colleague, Donald Rutherford, who retired on 30 September of 2009, has passed away. Donald spent the majority of his career at the University of Edinburgh". The University of Edinburgh School of Economics. 14 September 2023. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
• Works by or about Donald Rutherford at the Internet Archive