Author : Gianni Vaggi
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780822307570
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Cambridge)Includes index. Bibliography: p. 221-229.
Author : Steven Kaplan
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 783 pages
File Size : 47,89 MB
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1783088575
The mid-eighteenth century witnessed what might be dubbed an economic turn that resolutely changed the trajectory of world history. The discipline of economics itself emerged amidst this turn, and it is frequently traced back to the work of François Quesnay and his school of Physiocracy. Though lionized by the subsequent historiography of economics, the theoretical postulates and policy consequences of Physiocracy were disastrous at the time, resulting in a veritable subsistence trauma in France. This galvanized relentless and diverse critiques of the doctrine not only in France but also throughout the European world that have, hitherto, been largely neglected by scholars. Though Physiocracy was an integral part of the economic turn, it was rapidly overcome, both theoretically and practically, with durable and important consequences for the history of political economy. The Economic Turn brings together some of the leading historians of that moment to fundamentally recast our understanding of the origins and diverse natures of political economy in the Enlightenment.
Author : Walter Eltis
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Classical school of economics
ISBN :
Walter Eltis's classic account of the theories of growth and distribution of Frangois Quesnay, Adam Smith, Robert Malthus, David Ricardo and Karl Marx is reprinted with a substantial new Introduction setting the work in a broader context.
Author : Henry Higgs
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781015895034
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Liana Vardi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 2012-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1107379792
Physiocrats believed that wealth came exclusively from the land, that nature was fecund and man could harness its reproductive forces. Capital investments in agriculture and hard work would create profits that circulated to other sectors and supported all social institutions. Physiocracy, which originated in late eighteenth-century France, is therefore widely considered a forerunner of modern economic theory. This book places the Physiocrats in context by inscribing economic theory within broader Enlightenment culture. Liana Vardi discusses three theorists - Francois Quesnay; Victor Riquetti, marquis de Mirabeau; and Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours - and shows how their understanding of mental processes, science, politics and the arts influenced their individual approach to economic writing. The difficulty in explaining the doctrine, combined with the expectation that the public would be persuaded by its arguments, mired physiocracy in endless contradictions. This work offers a framework for understanding physiocratic theory and its complicated relation to modern economics.
Author : Francois Quesnay
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,22 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781016589482
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Ronald L. Meek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 32,3 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136509186
The birth of Physiocracy was the birth of the science of economics in the broad general form in which it is known to us today. It is surprising therefore that the Physiocrats should have received so little attention from economists in the English-speaking world. This book fills that gap. The volume begins with a deliberately non-specialist introduction. Translations of Physiocratic writings then follow and the final section of the book consists of specialized essays, dealing with certain aspects of the Physiocratic doctrine, its history and its influence.
Author : Peter D. Groenewegen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Commerce
ISBN : 9780415327626
This book brings together a collection of essays in honour of Peter Groenewegen, one of the most distinguished historians of economic thought. His work on a wide range of economic theorists approaches a level of near insuperability.
Author : Paul Anthony Samuelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 46,67 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107029937
This collection of writings by Paul Samuelson illustrates the depth and breadth of his contribution to the history of economics.
Author : Margaret Schabas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 20,77 MB
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226735710
References to the economy are ubiquitous in modern life, and virtually every facet of human activity has capitulated to market mechanisms. In the early modern period, however, there was no common perception of the economy, and discourses on money, trade, and commerce treated economic phenomena as properties of physical nature. Only in the early nineteenth century did economists begin to posit and identify the economy as a distinct object, divorcing it from natural processes and attaching it exclusively to human laws and agency. In The Natural Origins of Economics, Margaret Schabas traces the emergence and transformation of economics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from a natural to a social science. Focusing on the works of several prominent economists—David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Malthus, David Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill—Schabas examines their conceptual debt to natural science and thus locates the evolution of economic ideas within the history of science. An ambitious study, The Natural Origins of Economics will be of interest to economists, historians, and philosophers alike.
