* 1671 – John Law, Scottish economist ( d. 1729 )

David Hume ( 25 August 1776 ) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism.

* 1980 – Elizabeth Craig, Scottish journalist and economist ( b. 1883 )

* 1936 – James Mirrlees, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate

* 1723 – Adam Smith, Scottish philosopher and economist ( d. 1790 )

Hutton was one of the most influential participants in the Scottish Enlightenment, and fell in with numerous first-class minds in the sciences including John Playfair, philosopher David Hume and economist Adam Smith.

Scottish economist Adam Smith accepted the LTV for pre-capitalist societies but saw a flaw in its application to capitalism.

* Adam Smith ( 1723 – 1790 ) Scottish economist and philosopher.

* John Law, Scottish economist

* Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher

* July 17 – Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher ( b. 1723 )

* June 5 – ( baptised ) Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher ( d. 1790 )

* April 21 – John Law, Scottish economist ( d. 1729 )

* March 21 – John Law, Scottish economist ( b. 1671 )

* David Hume, a Scottish philosopher, economist and historian

A Scottish economist and finacier, John Law, exiled after killing a man in a duel, had travelled around Europe before settling in France.

According to cooperative economist Charles Gide, the aim of a cooperative wholesale society is to arrange “ bulk purchases, and, if possible, organise production .” The best historical example of this were the English CWS and the Scottish CWS, which were the forerunners to the modern Co-operative Group.

* James Mill ( 1773 – 1836 ), a Scottish historian, economist and philosopher

James Mill ( 6 April 1773 – 23 June 1836 ) was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher.

* Ralph Glasser ( 3 April 1916 – 6 March 2002 ) was a Scottish psychologist and economist, writer of the Growing up in the Gorbals autobiography

In the 18th century, the Scottish social philosopher and political economist Adam Smith, in The Wealth of Nations ( 1776 ) proposed that the " truck, barter, and exchange " activities of the market were corresponding economic representations of human nature, that is, the buying and selling of commodities were activities intrinsic to the market, and thus are the " natural behaviour " of the market.

Giffen goods are named after Scottish economist Sir Robert Giffen, who was attributed as the author of this idea by Alfred Marshall in his book Principles of Economics.

Sir Robert Giffen KCB ( 22 July 1837 – 12 April 1910 ), was a Scottish statistician and economist.

James Wilson ( 3 June 1805 – 11 August 1860 ) was a Scottish businessman, economist and Liberal politician.

The Church of Scotland separated from the Roman Catholic Church with the Scottish Reformation in 1560, and the split from it of the Scottish Episcopal Church began in 1582, in the reign of James VI of Scotland, over disagreements about the role of bishops.

* 1773 – James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian ( d. 1836 )

* 1983 – James McFadden, Scottish footballer

* 1327 – First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas leads a raid into Weardale and almost kills Edward III of England.

* 1979 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor

* 1710 – James Ferguson, Scottish astronomer ( d. 1776 )

James Thomson Callender, a Scottish citizen, had been expelled from Great Britain for his political writings.

The central argument in Principles was that the present is the key to the past – a concept of the Scottish Enlightenment which David Hume had stated as " all inferences from experience suppose ... that the future will resemble the past ", and James Hutton had described when he wrote in 1788 that " from what has actually been, we have data for concluding with regard to that which is to happen thereafter.

The term was introduced by the Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier ( 1808 – 1864 ).

On 6 October 1854, Scottish miner James Scobie was murdered at the Eureka hotel.

The Scottish lords forced her to abdicate in favour of her son James, who had been born in June 1566.

* 1837 – Sir James Murray, Scottish lexicographer and philologist ( d. 1915 )

* The Ossian cycle of ancient Celtic poetry supposedly rediscovered and published in 1760 by Scottish poet James Macpherson was actually written in the eighteenth century, possibly based on some fragments of earlier verses.

In 1843 James Braid, a Scottish physician proposed the term hypnosis for a technique derived from magnetism but more limited in its claimed effects, and also different in its conception.

The theory was proposed in 1795 by James Hutton, a Scottish physician and gentleman farmer, and was later incorporated into Charles Lyell's theory of uniformitarianism.

A fundamental principle of geology advanced by the 18th century Scottish physician and geologist James Hutton, is that " the present is the key to the past.

Most of the Scottish nobility were killed along with James himself.

King James I & VI as he was styled became the first monarch to rule the entire island of Great Britain, although it was merely a union of the English and Scottish crowns, and both countries remained separate political entities until 1707.

In 1468 the last significant acquisition of Scottish territory occurred when James III married Margaret of Denmark, receiving the Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands in payment of her dowry.

James IV's reign is often considered to have seen a flowering of Scottish culture under the influence of the European Renaissance.

Although James had tried to get the Scottish Church to accept some of the High Church Anglicanism of his southern kingdom, he met with limited success.

He and other Scottish Enlightenment thinkers developed what he called a ' science of man ', which was expressed historically in works by authors including James Burnett, Adam Ferguson, John Millar and William Robertson, all of whom merged a scientific study of how humans behave in ancient and primitive cultures with a strong awareness of the determining forces of modernity.

The focus of the Scottish Enlightenment ranged from intellectual and economic matters to the specifically scientific as in the work of William Cullen, physician and chemist, James Anderson, an agronomist, Joseph Black, physicist and chemist, and James Hutton, the first modern geologist.