...Laurent Dubois Calculation and Morality: The Costs of Slavery and the Value of Emancipation in the French Antilles . By Oudin-Bastude Caroline Steiner Philippe . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 . 272 pp. $105.00 . Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 168 Book...

...Philippe Steiner 820 Book Reviews Republicanism and the French Revolution: An Intellectual History of Jean- Baptiste Say’s Political Economy. By Richard Whatmore. Oxford:Oxford Univer- sity Press, 2000. xiv; 248 pp. £40.00. According to John Stuart Mill, who stayed in Jean-Baptiste Say’s...

... and Chatto, 2002. viii; 402 pp. £110.00. The Wealth of Nations in French and in France, 1776–1843. By Kenneth Carpen- ter. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 2002. lxiii; 255 pp. $45.00. These two books, both the product of extensive scholarly detective work, are in- valuable references...

...Arnaud Orain The insufficiently criticized story of a secularized pre-Revolutionary France has led historians of economics to consider French political economy as free from the influence of religion from the 1730s through the 1780s. On the contrary, through a study of the “second Jansenism...

...David Spector Abstract As in other industrialized countries, cartelization was widespread in France after the 1870s. Cartels, and the public policy toward them, were frequently addressed in the public debate. This article deals with the stance taken by French economists on this subject until...

...Nathalie Sigot Abstract This article reconstructs the debates on the woman question in which nineteenth-century French liberal economists participated: it aims at showing that their analysis contradicted their conviction that, in Bastiat's words, “men's interests, when left to themselves, tend...

..., Série P.E . 20 . 10 : 103 -42. Dèmier , Francis . 1990 . Les économistes libéraux de la premiére moitié du XIXe siécle et la Révolution française. Cahiers d'histoire de l'Institut de recherches marxistes 40 : 79 -103. Dunham , A. L. 1930 . The Anglo-French Treaty...

... the original. Murray Wolfson, California State University at Fullerton Minerva’s Message: Stabilizing the French Revolution. By Martin S. Staum. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996. 342 pp. $44.95. France seems unable to escape its past despite a history of radical...

...Jeremy D. Popkin Sans-Culottes: An Eighteenth-Century Emblem in the French Revolution . By Sonenscher Michael . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2008 . xi; 493 pp. $46.95 . Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Book Reviews Joan Robinson. By G. C. Harcourt...

...Nathalie Sigot This article aims to understand the reasons why, in 1828, Jeremy Bentham's Defence of Usury was translated into French by Saint-Amand Bazard, one of the two leaders of the Saint-Simonians, even though it had already been translated twice, in 1790. Addressing this issue enables us...

.... Pigou. Economic Journal 23 ( March ): 62 -70. Ekelund Jr. Robert B. , E. G. Furubotn, and W. P. Gramm 1972 . The Evolution of Modern Demand Theory: A Collection of Essays . Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath. Ekelund Jr. Robert B. , and W. P. Gramm 1970 . Early French Contributions...

... Perspective .” Revue d’Economie Politique 105 , no. 4 : 539 – 57 . Dimand Robert Dimand Mary Ann . 1996 . “ From Games of Pure Chance to Strategic Games: French Probabilists and Early Game Theory .” In Uncertainty in Economic Thought , edited by Schmidt Christian , 157 – 68...

... 00 18-2702/89/$1.50 The institutionalization of political economy in French universities: 1819-1 896 A la in A lco u$e Unlike common practice in other sciences more sure perhaps of their ob- jectives and/or of their usefulness, treatises dealing with political economy, from...

... of the Average: Statistics and Natural Order in Nineteenth-Century French Economic Thought Philippe Le Gall The fi rst cricket match between the colonial states of New South Wales and Victoria was played at the Domain in Sydney over three days in January...

... Postwar Contributions of French Economists to Theory and Public Policy, with Special Emphasis on Problems of Resource Allocation.” American Economic Review 44 , pt. 2 (June 1964 ): 1 -64. Dupuit , Jules “On the Measurement of the Utility of Public Works.” Annales des Ponts et Chaussées , 2d...

...: the Abbé de Condillac and the French Enlightenment . New Haven. Lebeau , Auguste 1970 . Condillac économiste (1903). Reprinted. New York. Lefort , J. 1911 . ‘Condillac, économiste.’ Revue Générale du Droit, de la Législation et de la Jurisprudence 35 : 256 -61. Macleod...

... stages of the dead loss controversy and shows that it was driven by an intricate interlacing of technical advances in welfare economics with Allais's personal ambition to spearhead the revival of French economics. Eventually, this controversy (and the tense exchange between Allais and Debreu that came...

...Katia Caldari; Muriel Dal Pont Legrand Abstract French economic expertise developed significantly during the interwar period when economic issues, and particularly those resulting directly from World War I, became the overriding concern for Europe's democracies. Before the end of World War II...

..., gentle introduction, but a focused, sophis- ticated treatment of pioneering French scholars with a quantitative bent, a treatment that explores how their worldviews infl uenced their questions, methods, and answers. As Mary Morgan explains in the foreword, “Le Gall’s most signifi cant conceptual...

...Julien Duval Abstract This article deals with a French TV program that was launched in the late 1980s and that is devoted to the economic dimensions of life. It became very popular and still exists today. This article proposes an analysis of this unprecedented success in France, through diversified...