abstract:Sir James Steuart, 3rd Baronet of Goodtrees and eventually 7th Baronet of Coltness; late in life Sir James Steuart Denham, also called Sir James Denham Steuart (21 October 1713, Edinburgh – 26 November 1780, Coltness, Lanarkshire) was a prominent Jacobite and author of "probably the first systematic treatise written in English about economics"Encyclopǣdia Britannica. "James Steuart-Denham, 4th Baronet," Preview (2013).