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This bibliography of the works of Sir William Petty (1623-1687) provides an overview of and gives easy access to (all of) his writings. William Petty was an important political economist and statistician of the seventeenth century. But he was also active in various other fields. He wrote a lot. But most of his works were not in the first place intended for (scientific) publication, but rather “for circulation in the corridors of power or with a view to acquiring influence and jobs - which he never managed to obtain.”[1]
We may call Petty an economist, even though "Political Economy" was not yet a science in his days. Most writers on the History of Economic Thought consider Petty as an important predecessor of the Political Economy that would develop in the 17th and 18th century and that would grow into maturity in the end of the 18th and the first half of the 19th century.[2]
The same is true for Petty as a statistician.[3]