ABSTRACT
Hume’s economics, as will be shown in Chapter 4, originates in the Treatise but his publicly successful economics writing also originates in a rhetorical turn (see Chapter 6 for the development of his essays, an extension of the rhetorical turn considered here) initiated when Hume contemplated the failure of the Treatise to find an audience. The extent of Hume’s reflections on this failure has significant consequences for the format and presentation of his economic thought.
