William Smart (10 April 1853 – 19 March 1915) was a Scottish economist.^[1] Initially inspired by Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin,^[2] Smart was a conveyor of the thought of the Austrian School,^[3] before being won-over to the neoclassicalism of Alfred Marshall.

Smart, eldest son of Alexander Smart and grandson of Reverend William Smart, was born in Barrhead, Scotland.

Works

• An Introduction to the Theory of Value on the Lines of Menger, Wieser, and Böhm-Bawerk (1891, 1910).
• The Return to Protection (1904)
• William Smart (1917). Economic Annals of the Nineteenth Century: 1821–1830. Macmillan and Company, limited.
• William Smart (1883). John Ruskin: His Life and Work. Wilson & McCormick.
• William Smart (1895). "Glasgow and Its Municipal Industries". The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 9 (2): 188–194. JSTOR 1885599.
• Clark, J. Maurice (1917). "Reviewed Work: Second Thoughts of an Economist, by William Smart". Journal of Political Economy. 25 (4): 402–404. doi:10.1086/252976. JSTOR 1819087.
• Smart, William (1916). Second Thoughts of an Economist. London: Macmillan and Co.