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Eighteenth-century Economics Turgot, Beccaria and Smith and their contemporaries

  • Published: 2002
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780203458785
  • Print ISBN: 9780415279406
  • eBook ISBN: 9780203458785

Peter Groenewegen is one of the world’s foremost scholars of eighteenth-century economics – the era that saw the effective ‘mainstreaming’ of the discipline in the work of Smith, Turgot and Quesnay. This collection of essays amounts to the definitive guide to eighteenth-century economics and is a must for any economist’s bookshelves.

Eighteenth-century Economics represents four decades of Peter Groenewegen’s research of that period. Presented in chronological order, the essays read not only as an authoritative summary of the period, but also as a guide to the evolution of Groenewegen’s writings down the years. There can be no doubt that this book is truly indispensable to any serious economist and will prove a valuable resource for students of the history of economic thought.

Contents

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    Front Matter
  • Part I
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      Turgot, Beccaria and Smith
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      Thoughts on the emergence of economics as a science
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      New light on the origins of modern economics
  • Part II
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      Labour and the classical economists
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      Boisguilbert and eighteenth-century economics
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      The French connection: Some case studies of French influences on British economics in the eighteenth century
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      Employment and machinery: Two classical debates on the effects of automation
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      The notion of the subsistence wage in pre-Smithian classical political economy: Some reflections inspired by the surplus approach By Tony Aspromourgos
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      Sir James Steuart and Richard Cantillon
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      Editing the classics in the Antipodes: With special reference to the problem of identifying anonymous authors
  • Part III
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      Laissez-faire: Reflections on the French foundations
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      The physiocrats: The origins of scientific political economy and the single tax
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      Quesnay’s first publication in economics: The article ‘Fermiers’ for the Encyclopédie – an introductions
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      14
      Du Pont de Nemours on the origins and progress of a new science
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      15
      Reflections on Pietro Verri’s political economy
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      A re-appraisal of Turgot’s theory of value, exchange and price determination
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      A re-interpretation of Turgot’s theory of capital and interest
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      Turgot: Forerunner of neo-classical economics?
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      Turgot’s place in the history of economic thought: A bicentenary estimate 1
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      Turgot and Adam Smith
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      A new catalogue of Adam Smith’s library
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      Adam Smith and the division of labour: A bicentenary estimate 1
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      Productivity of labour, thrift and economic progress: Adam Smith’s optimistic view of economic development
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    Back Matter