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A History of Economic Thought in France: The Long Nineteenth Century book cover

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A History of Economic Thought in France The Long Nineteenth Century

Edited By Gilbert Faccarello, Claire Silvant Copyright 2024
438 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

438 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

438 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Part I. Political Economy in the Age of Industry

1. Prelude I. Political economy in the age of industry

Claire Silvant

2. The founding fathers of the French liberal thought: L.-C.-C. Destutt de Tracy and Jean-Baptiste Say

Alain Béraud & Guy Numa

3. Liberal economists after Say

Alain Béraud & Claire Silvant

4. Antoine-Augustin Cournot and the emergence of mathematical economics

Alain Béraud & Guy Numa

5. Jules Dupuit and the ‘ingénieurs économistes’

Claire Silvant

6. Léon Walras. A trilogy of pure, applied and social economics

Jean-Pierre Potier

7. Tradition and innovation at the turn of the twentieth century

Alain Béraud & Claire Silvant

Part II. Critiques of Liberal Political Economy

8. Prelude II. Introduction to the critiques of political economy

Gilbert Faccarello

9. Jean-Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi

Pascal Bridel

10. Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon and the Saint-Simonians

Ragıp Ege

11. Associationists and socialists: the first debates

Clément Coste & Ludovic Frobert

12. Fin-de-siècle socialisms

Vincent Bourdeau

13. The sociological critique of liberal political economy

Philippe Steiner

14. Postlude. After World War I

Alain Béraud & Claire Silvant

Biography

Gilbert Faccarello is Emeritus Professor at Panthéon-Assas University, France. He is a co-founder of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought and co-editor of the Routledge Historical Resources site devoted to the History of Economic Thought.

Claire Silvantis is Associate Professor of Economics at the Université Lumière, France, and a member of the research centre Triangle (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). She also was in charge of a research programme on the history of public economics sponsored by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.

"[T]he editors are to be congratulated on having at last brought into view the sheer variety of nineteenth century French economic thought, and given us the means to begin to understand it."

- Keith Tribe, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought

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