H. Scott Gordon (1924-2019) was a Canadian economist born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His seminal 1954 article Economic Theory of a Common Property Resource: The Fishery marked the beginning of the modern economics study of fisheries. He spent most of his career teaching and writing in the history and philosophy of economics, including the books Welfare, Justice, and Freedom (1980), The History and Philosophy of Social Science (1991), and Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today (2002).
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1924
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2019 (aged 94)
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