- Published: 1 Sep 2017
- DOI: 10.4324/9781138201521-HET8-1
Contents
- Abstract
- Introduction
- French Enlightenment
- Scottish Enlightenment
- Italian Enlightenment
- References
Abstract
If the Enlightenment can be defined as an emancipatory call for reason, a concern for more analytic and systematic explanations, or a claim to greater freedom, happiness and equality for mankind, then eighteenth-century economic thought as a specific inquiry into principles or laws governing the economy of a civil society, whether named science of trade or political economy, takes part in this vision. It might be said that economic thought contributed to the promotion of a civil and commercial culture insofar as it sought to achieve peace and prosperity within the nation and between nations. It is in this sense that in the eighteenth-century Europe science of trade and political economy were regarded as new and hopeful sciences.
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Keywords
- Equality
- Ethics
- Free Trade
- Freedom
- Individual Freedom
- Individualism
- Liberalism
- Liberty
- National Wealth
- Natural Law
- Natural Liberty
- Social Welfare
- Wealth
- Welfare
- French Economists
- Italian Economists
- Scottish Economists
Subjects
Currents of Thought
Countries
Periods
- 1700-1755. Inception of Systematic Economic Analysis
- 1756-1800. Emergence of Modern Currents of Political Economy
Notable Figures
- Cesare Bonesana Beccaria
- Pierre Le Pesant de Boisguilbert
- Étienne Bonnot de Condillac
- Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat de Condorcet
- Samuel Dupont [de Nemours]
- Antonio Genovesi
- David Hume
- Jean-François Melon
- Charles de Secondat de Montesquieu
- François Quesnay
- Adam Smith
- James Steuart
- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
- François Véron de Forbonnais