... History of Political Economy 17:3 0 1985 by Duke University Press CCC 00 18-2702/85/$1.50 The role of profits in Physiocratic economics Gianni Vaggi I. Introduction This article shows...

... . Oeuvres de Turgot et Documents le Concernant , edited by G. Schelle. 5 vols. Paris: Félix Alcan. Vaggi , Gianni 1987 . The Economics of François Quesnay . London: Macmillan. L'Abb6 de Condillac and the Physiocrats Walter Eltis L'Abb6 de Condillac was one of France's most...

...Loïc Charles; Christine Théré This article investigates the scientific practices—and their transformations across time—of the physiocrats in relation to their social background. Our contention is that, in this regard, the physiocratic movement can be broken down in two successive creative...

.... [ 1879 ] 1954. Progress and Poverty . Reprinted, New York. George , H. [ 1897 ] 1962. The Science of Political Economy . Reprinted, New York. Gide , C. , and C. Rist [ 1909 ] 1948. A History of Economic Doctrines: From the Time of the Physiocrats to the Present Day . Translated by R...

... . London: George Allen & Unwin. Meek , R. L. 1973 . Precursors of Adam Smith, 1750-1775 . London: Dent. Murphy , A. E. 1986 . Richard Cantillon: Entrepreneur and Economist . Oxford: Clarendon. Thweatt , William O. 1987 . “The Classicals” Citations to the Physiocrats...

... 1990 by Duke University Press CCC 0018-2702/90/$1.50 Economic thought in late eighteenth-century Portugal: physiocratic and Smithian influences Jose‘ Luis Cardoso I. Introduction The international transmission...

.... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... of Benjamin Franklin’s works in 1779. Vaughan deserves to be better known for many reasons: he was also an economist, influenced both by the Wealth of Nations and by the physiocrats, who wrote his own book on free trade (1788), which he also translated into French. He founded two London periodicals, supported...

... in relation to agricultural production), but not much else. In actuality, physiocracy was defined by a precise conceptual model, created in order to engage in the controver- sies on economic policies of the period (Francois Quesnay, 1957; Vaggi 1991). Physiocrats defined themselves more by the almost...

..., theories of property, state, and economy. Notwithstanding a long chapter on the Tableau e‘conornique and other discussions, the book is concerned much less with the Physiocrats’ contribution to economic science than with their participation in the formation of modern bourgeois possessive...

... progrès d'une science nouvelle . In Dupont de Nemours 1979. ____. 1979 . Oeuvres politiques etéconomiques . 2 vols. Nendeln: KTO. Eltis, Walter. 1995 . L'Abbé de Condillac and the Physiocrats. HOPE 27.2 : 217 -36. ____. 2002 . How Quesnay's Tableau EconomiqueOffered a Deeper Analysis...

...-optation of the rest helped assure that there would be no neo-Jacobins in the Institute who might challenge the moderate Revolutionary settlement. We shall see first how several of them accepted the deductivist practices of the Physiocrats, while criticizing dog- matism, and how J.-B. Say thought...

... is about u Physiocrat rather than about Physiocracy itself, and the author strictly avoids intellectual squabbles about 168 History of Political Economy 1I:I (1979) the substance and significance of Physiocracy qua economic analysis. Never- theless, the Preface strikes a false note...

.... Since the appearance of Henri Woog’s The Tubleau Economique of Frangois Quesnay in 1950 no full-length English study has been published on the eco- nomics of Quesnay or the Physiocrats. Meek’s classic, The Economics of Physiocracy (1962), is a collection of translations and previously...

... modern economics from William Petty or the Physiocrats rather than from Adam Smith. These seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers are usually evaluated in terms of the clarity or thoroughness with which they anticipated nineteenth- and twentieth-century political economy...

... Signorino The debates on the international corn trade that raged in Great Britain in the first two decades of the nineteenth century were a crucial moment of transition in the development of British economic thought: classical eco- nomics, once purged of its physiocratic residues, eventually...

... , G. 1985 . A Physiocratic Model of Relative Prices and Income Distribution. Economic Journal 95 . 380 : 928 -47. Woog , H. 1950 . The Tableau Economique of François Quesnay: An Essay in the Explanation of Its Mechanism and a Critical Review of the Interpretation of Marx, Bilimovic...

...-PUF. Herlitz, Lars. 1996 . From Spending Reproduction to Circuit Flow and Equilibrium: The Two Conceptions of TableauÉconomique. European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 3.1 : 1 -20. Higgs, Henry. 1897 . The Physiocrats: Six Lectures on the French “Economists” of the 18th...