I doubt it. Hume wrote essays but no 'treatise' on political oeconomy -- 
only one on 'Human Nature' (1738). The only mid-18th C Anglophone 
authors to write systematic treatises on political oeconomy were Steuart 
(1767) and Smith (1776).

Owen wrote nothing about economics, and nothing before the second decade 
of the 19th C.


On 31/08/2014 12:22 PM, Robert Dimand wrote:
> It might be David Hume.
>
> Quoting "Deniz T. Kilincoglu" <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>> I need help about a brief note I've come across in an early 19th
>> century Ottoman manuscript about a mid-18th-century British
>> economist/philosopher.
>> According to the text, he was a contemporary of Quesnay, and that he
>> and Quesnay laid the foundations of modern economics by organizing the
>> economic knowledge of their age to write the earliest treatises in this
>> specific field.
>> The name, according to the author, is Owem or (or Owm or something like
>> this--sorry, it's in Arabo-Persian script, so I can only make an
>> educated guess), and no first name is given.
>> It can very well be Owen too, assuming a typo or a mispronunciation.
>> So, I thought about Robert Owen, obviously, but as far as I know, he
>> did not pen a treatise about economics.
>> Thank you very much in advance for any kind of response.
>> Best wishes,
>> Deniz
>>
>> -- 
>> Deniz T. Kilincoglu, PhD
>>
>> Economics Program
>> Middle East Technical University
>> Northern Cyprus Campus, T-141
>> Kalkanl?, Güzelyurt, KKTC
>> via Mersin 10, Turkey
>> Telephone: +90 392 661 3017
>
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