Nicholas Barbon

(: , * In 1640 in London as the If- Jesus-Christ -Had -Not- Died -For- Thee- Thou - hadst -Been - Damned Barebone; † around 1698 in Osterley House, Middlesex Barebon or barebones as well) was Nicholas Barbon an English economist.

Barbon studied medicine at Leiden University and received his doctorate in medicine in 1661 at the University of Utrecht. He was involved in the building of London after the Great Fire in 1666 and the establishment of a fire insurance in England around 1680.

Works

• A letter to a gentleman in the country. Milbourn, London 1684th
• At Ansvver to a letter to a gentleman in the countrey. Giving an account of the two insurance- offices, the Fire - Office & Friendly Society. Printed by William Horton, London 1684th
• Apology for the Builder; or a Discourse showing the Cause and Effects of the Increase of Building (1685 )
• A Discourse of Trade ( 1690; BiblioLife 2009, ISBN 1-117-63043-9 )
• A discourse Concerning coining the new money lighter: in answer to Mr. Lock's Considerations about raising the value of money. Printed for Richard Chiswell, London to 1696.