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
>
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