[He] was from good family, both by father and mother: [his] father's family is a branch of the earl of Home's or Hume's; and [his] ancestor's had

been proprietors of the estate which [his] brother posses, for several generations. [His] mother was daughter of Sir David Falconer, president of the college of justice.

His father, Joseph Hume, and his mother, Katherine Falconer, had grown up together as stepbrother and stepsister on the family estate of Ninewells in Berwickshire. "[His] father died when [he] was an infant, leaving [him] with an elder brother and a si

er, under the care of [their] mother, a woman of singular merit, who, though young and handsome, devoted herself entirely to the rearing and educating of her children" (qtd from Freeman v-vi).

Hume was raised by his mother and at the age of eighteen, he attended the University of Edinburgh. He was an exceptional student, and his mother, noting his brilliance, hoped he would persue a career in the

indulgences are only vices, when they are pursued at the expense of some virtue, as liberality or charity; in like manner as they are follies, when for them a man reduces himself to want

possible, ought to enjoy the fruits of his labour, in a full possession of the necessaries, and many of the conveniences of life. No one can doubt, but such an equality is most suitable to human nature,

From 1734 to 1737 Hume occupied himself intensively with the problems of speculative philosophy and during this period wrote his most important philosophical work, A Treatise of Human Nature, which embodies the essence of his thinking. In spite of its

The extent and effectiveness of Hume's economic thought are not necessarily indicated by the quantity of his writings on economics. He wrote only nine

1. Labour: Every thing in the world is purchased by labour; and our passions [i.e., our wants] are the only causes of labour . . . . Every person, if

Money is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce; but only the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one

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