# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-west
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:49:37.167Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-west"
name: "Edward West"
slug: "edward-west"
description: "Sir Edward West was a British judge who served in India and an economist. He is known for his statement of the law of diminishing returns in his Essay on the Application of Capital to Land :The principle is simply this, that in the progress of the improvement of cultivation the raising of rude produce becomes progressively more expensive, or, in other words, the ratio of the net produce of land to its gross produce is constantly diminishing."
tagline: "British economist and judge in India"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1782"
deathDate: "1828"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.31
  momentum:             11.15384615384615
  historical:           3.935565333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA"
    title: "ادوارد ويست"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_West_(economist_and_judge)"
    title: "Edward West (economist and judge)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A3%D1%8D%D1%81%D1%82%2C_%D0%AD%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4"
    title: "Уэст, Эдуард"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%88%B1%E5%BE%B7%E5%8D%8E%C2%B7%E9%9F%A6%E6%96%AF%E7%89%B9"
    title: "爱德华·韦斯特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5345847"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump