A History of Economic Thought in France: Political Economy in the Age of Enlightenment [Hardcover]

Foreword Gilbert Faccarello and Claire Silvant   1. Prelude. From Scholasticism to the Enlightenment   Thierry Demals & Gilbert Faccarello   2. Pierre de Boisguilbert and the foundation of Laissez-faire  Gilbert Faccarello   3. John Law and the Mississippi System  Antoin E. Murphy   4. Science of trade and commerce politique  Thierry Demals   5. Fran?ois Quesnay and Physiocracy  Thierry Demals & Philippe Steiner   6. Turgot, Graslin and sensationist political economy  Gilbert Faccarello   7. Political critiques of political economy  Arnaud Orain   8. The spirit of geometry. Quantification and formalisation  Gilbert Faccarello   9. Postlude. Intellectual exchanges and last developments  Gilbert Faccarello

This ambitious book explores the heyday of French political economy, covering the period 1695-1914  symbolically starting with Boisguilberts first publication and closing with the First World War. This first volume deals with the history of political economy in France in the Age of Enlightenment.

Traditionally, there has been a long and sustained interest in studying the history of economic ideas in France. Interest appeared to wane after World War II, but in recent decades, there has been a marked renaissance of interest and research in the contributions of French-speaking authors. Drawing on the flow of recent research, this book presents a new assessment of the history of political economy in France incorporating both novel presentations of some traditiol£7