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History of Political Economy (1978) 10 (1): 114–150.
Published: 01 March 1978
...Jacob Viner Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Chapter Three Secularizing tendencies in Catholic social thought from the Renaissance to the Jansenist-Jesuit controversy The Concept of “Secularization” The wide range of meaning given...
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History of Political Economy (2014) 46 (3): 463–490.
Published: 01 September 2014
... studies, in what different ways it affected economics. The first explores the resonance of the Jansenist culture of several members of the Gournay circle on their methodological approaches and their promotion of agriculture and trade. The second case study focuses on the loan at interest. This article...
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History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (2): 378–381.
Published: 01 June 2001
.... The filiation stretches back to St. Augustine, but reaches its peak in the works of the Jansenistic writers Pierre Nicole and Jean Domat. These, according to Faccarello, are two of the main influences on Boisguilbert. He quotes from Nicole’s De l’éducation d’un prince (1670) to show the way this Jansenistic...
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History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (5): 121–142.
Published: 01 December 2008
...A. M. C. Waterman Economic analysis (as we understand the term today) first appeared in France at the end of the seventeenth century as a consequence of Jansenist theodicy. Throughout the eighteenth century, political economy (the study of wealth, and not to be confused with economic analysis...
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History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (Suppl_1): 101–128.
Published: 01 December 2003
..., the “Cartesian Fontenelle.” A few years in a Jansenist school reinforced by the moral and social theories of Blaise Pascal, Pierre Nicole, and Jean Domat are seen to forge an Augustinian vision of a human nature driven by “self-love, interest, lust and deceit” but masked by a ruse of con- cern for others...
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History of Political Economy (2008) 40 (5): 117–120.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of Pierre de Boisguilbert. Waterman emphasizes three themes in particular. First, Boisguilbert picked up on a stream of Jansenist theodicy, in which our self-love, itself an expression of sin, by God’s providence remedied some of the evil effects of sin, serving as a foundation for the social...
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History of Political Economy (2022) 54 (2): 373–376.
Published: 01 April 2022
... of the book is its perceptive, detailed exploration of the writings of a range of contributors, including English political economists, French Catholic theologians (including the Jansenists), Dutch ministers, German Protestant natural-law philosophers, cameralists, and Scottish Enlightenment moral...
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History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (Suppl_1): 309–337.
Published: 01 December 2003
... epistemic and only rarely frequentist meanings has been hidden from historians of mathematical probability in part by the association of epistemic probability with so-called probabilism,an eth- ical doctrine supported by many Jesuit confessors and rejected by the Jansenists,which historians...
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History of Political Economy (1988) 20 (2): 191–206.
Published: 01 June 1988
... Freemasons, Jansenists, and other regalists, who often had ties to foreign economic and cultural contacts, especially with the French and Italian As protege of Campomanes, Jovellanos continued the important pre- Smithian movement of economic liberalism promoted by the great Fiscal...
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History of Political Economy (1995) 27 (1): 212–215.
Published: 01 March 1995
... document, thought to hold Jansenist and anti-Jesuit ideas. By 1762, in addition to the publication of five books, Campomanes had published an essay on Spain’s noteworthy Single Tax Proposal, “La unica contribucih.” Llom- bart develops the ties of Campomanes to other government officials...
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History of Political Economy (1978) 10 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 1978
... with: the economic doctrines of the early Chris- tian Fathers; the economic doctrines of the Scholastics with ref- erence to private property, usury, just price; the economic issues involved in the Jansenist-Jesuit controversies within the Catholic Church, the roles of early Protestant theology...
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History of Political Economy (2007) 39 (3): 453–480.
Published: 01 September 2007
... from his Conversation. I must likewise add, that he has a fi ne Library, so that we shall have all Advantages of Study. Ernest Mossner ([1954] 1980, 97) found that the third letter was for the Abbé Noel-Antoine Pluche, “a learned man, a Jansenist and an anti- Cartesian, having held the chairs...
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History of Political Economy (1976) 8 (4): 478–493.
Published: 01 November 1976
... Eight years later, in 1675, the French Jansenist Pierre Nicole in his Essuis de tmrale came still closer to Smith’s idea when he related the pursuit of enlightened self-interest (amour-propre cklairk) to benefi- cial effects identical with those that love for one’s fellowmen (charith) would...
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History of Political Economy (1978) 10 (1): 9–45.
Published: 01 March 1978
... and largely the product of the influence of Luther, Calvin, and the Jansenists. Of St. Augustine he says that “when he characterizes as ‘consolations of the miserable damned’ the magnificences of this world, it is not because he gives these magnificences little weight, for they are dearer to him...
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History of Political Economy (2011) 43 (3): 553–589.
Published: 01 September 2011
... enlightened self-interest would be more efficient as a social incentive than the rewards of virtue. But if Jansenists still talked about la charité, or if Rousseau still talked about “compassion” (Linton 2001, 22–128), La Beaumelle wrote only about the “sociability” springing from individual self...
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History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (2): 241–268.
Published: 01 June 2003
... century by French Jansenist theologians and jurists such as Pierre Nicole and Jean Domat. David Hume became familiar with this work during his stay in France in the 1730s. John Locke translated some of Pierre Nicole’s work into English (e.g., Locke 2000). Pierre Nicole’s analysis on the weakness...
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History of Political Economy (2023) 55 (5): 869–904.
Published: 01 October 2023
... Tableau Economique . Nevertheless, the analogy can be misleading, because the é conomistes compared the circulation of blood to that of riches, not that of money. 15. According to Boisguilbert’s Jansenist tradition, for the physiocrats, the finality of goods was indeed to be found in human...
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History of Political Economy (1982) 14 (1): 1–36.
Published: 01 March 1982
... with Locke’s nor Berkeley’s. Similarly, Viner’s Introduction to Bernard Mandeville, A Letter to Dion [I7321 (Los Angeles, 1953), pp. 6-11, focuses on rigorous Jansenist doctrine, since he considers this the only moral teaching vaguely corresponding to the doctrine which Mandeville claims to accept...
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History of Political Economy (2006) 38 (3): 497–530.
Published: 01 September 2006
...- orderly animal-like freedom. As Jacob Viner (1978, 130–74) and Gil- bert Faccarello (1999, 58–72) explain, along the lines of the Jansenist doctrine and its infl uence on the economists of the seventeenth and eigh- teenth centuries, morality at this level is nothing more than a semblance...
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History of Political Economy (1984) 16 (1): 1–57.
Published: 01 March 1984
... the Ultraroyalists. They regarded the Director himself as suspect because of his Jansenist leanings in religion. Moreover, just at this time the Fathers of the Holy Spirit were taking measures to recover pos- session of their old Seminary. Soon after the distinguished cleric, Mon- seigneur de Frayssinous...