... to an agrarian economic theory are best described as the “writing workshop” of François Quesnay rather than as the “physiocratic” school. Quesnay organized and supervised the work of these individuals, who assisted him in a manner clearly reminiscent of that of workshops of artists from late medieval and early...

... communities: The writing workshop of Quesnay (ca.1756–ca.1764) and the physiocratic school (ca.1764–ca.1777). This transformation is related to the specific places and cultural spaces in which the two communities evolved; that is, respectively, Versailles and the court, and Paris in the heyday...

.... Studying side-by-side the works of the period’s most famous school of political economy, the physiocrats, and one of its most influential naturalists, the Comte de Buffon, the paper demonstrates that the physiocrats adopted not only the term from natural historians but also the conceptual baggage...

.... [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 physiocracy money Law's system Quesnay circulation It is now universally accepted that the physiocratic school played a leading role in the emergence of political economy in the second half of the eighteenth century...

... of Funds Table: Lang’s Tableau of 1815 Gotz Uebe 1. Introduction This article presents the first known flow of funds table, Joseph Lang’s matrix tableau of 1815. Section 1 reviews Lang’s work in relation to his intellectual predecessors, the Physiocratic school of thought. Sec- tion 2...

... (one of the two leading positions in government) was the econo- mist Robert Turgot. He appointed several Physiocrats (or kconomistes as their school was described) as well as appointing a grandson of Quesnay’s to his personal cabinet (Schelle 1909, 154). Their highly controversial reform...

... central difference from the physiocrats was his distaste for their systems, arising from his sensationist-empiricist impulses: “Sensationist empiricism was the principle of Turgot’s theoretical position in regard to the Physiocratic school.” 62. In Turgot 1913, 2:677. 63. In Turgot 1913, 3:78...

... review of Auxiron’s book, Baudeau (1767, 4:118) nonetheless claims that the author subscribes to the central physiocratic conviction that the earth “is the unique source of wealth.” This must be seen as part of his attempt to enlist Auxiron for the cause of the school, an attempt that explains...

... avoidance of revolution . Oxford. Dorfman , Joseph . 1955 . The role of the German Historical School in American economic thought. American Economic Review 45 . 2 : 17 -28. Funchal , Marquês do . 1908 . O Conde de Linhares, Dom Rodrigo Domingos António de Sousa Coutinho . Lisbon...

... section illustrate this effort to create a social science.’ The trend in economic theory becomes marked only when their works are viewed against the backdrop of leading authors of the new liberal school, such as J.-B. Say, a friend of several Institute members, and the IdCologue Correspondence...

.... Indeed, among many histo- rians of economic thought it is commonly held that the group of Paris-based writers of the eighteenth century who unpretentiously called themselves fes bconomistes comprised not only the “first school of political economy” but also the last of distinctively French...

... are organized around three themes. Four essays deal with the relationship between international trade and economic growth; two essays review the work of Adam Smith and Viner, respectively; and the last two essays review the trade theories of the Physiocrats and later French writers. Of the first group...

... to Cantillon. Mirabeau’s own writings were popularizations of Cantillon, and his books became best sellers in France and were trans- lated into other languages. The publication of the Essai in 1755 marks the beginning of the physiocratic school, which began in 1756. In addition, it is well known...

... Aquinas, William Petty, John Locke, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, and others-all dealt with in Part 1-and FranGois Quesnay and the Physiocrats-the topic of Part 2. Immler’s contribution is that he emphasizes the role and function of the natural environment, and its neglect...

... maintains-with an attempt to construct a “general theory of economic systems.” This first volume recounts the historic course of political economy through a detailed examination of the main systematic at- tempts (from the Physiocrats to the Marxian system); but, considering the more general...

... the attention that he paid to matters of a fiscal nature. The starting point for his incursions into this area was the critique that he made of the taxation system proposed by Mirabeau and, although no express mention is made of them, by other epigones of the physiocratic school. Writing in a period when...

... inquiry of French economy and society. Our claim is that this program of observation was for Quesnay and the physiocrats no less important than their theoretical investigation. The results of the surveys and agricultural accounts they produced were integrated in some of the physiocrats’ main theoretical...

....” This, he concludes, “precludes the study of varying proportions .”7 Accordingly, Ohlin dismisses, almost without exception, the “English classical school .” Longfield, the Irish economist, is, however, credited with a significant contribution, while Sismondi is also cited as the sole evidence...

... by the indifference among some intellectuals with regard to the impact of Chinese economic thinking on the Physiocrats, particularly Fransois Quesnay. Hu’s views are broadly shared by a number of economists and sinologists such as Gide and Rist (History of economic doctrines, 1960); Joseph Needham (Science...

... and E. Schams (1933) indicates the importance attached to this area of research and teaching in Germany around the turn of the century and after, when the historical school dominated. They date the be- ginning of the “scientific epoch” of our subdiscipline of economics from Eugen Duhring ’s...