1st Edition
Studies in the History of French Political Economy From Bodin to Walras
Edited By Gilbert Faccarello
Copyright 1998
472 Pages
by
Routledge
472 Pages
by
Routledge
Studies in the History of French Political Economy considers the evolution of economic thought in France, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Gilbert Faccarello brings to the forefront those economists, themes and controversies which are important in the context of recent research, and about which new ideas can be developed.
Foreword, Contributors, 1. Economic Publishing and Authors, 1566-1789, 2. The Enigmatic Monsieur Du Tot, 3. Mathematical Economics and Probability Theory: Charles-Francois Bicquilley's Daring Contribution, 4. Galiani, Necker and Turgot: A Debate on Economic Reform and Policy in Eighteenth-Century France, 5. Jean-Baptiste Say: The Entrepreneur, the free trade Doctrine and the Theory of Income Distribution, 6. Sismondi and the Evolution of Economic Institutions, 7. Jules Dupuit, the French 'Ingenieurs Economistes' and the Societe D' Economie Politique, 8. From the Dynamics of the Entrepreneur to the Analysis of the Firm: La Science Des Affaires, 1819-1855, 9. The Development of Walras' Monetary Theory, 10. Leon Walras and Applied Science: The Significance of the Free Competition Principle, 11. French Economists and Marginalism (1871-1918), Index
Biography
Gilbert Faccarello is professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Fontenayl Saint-Cloud, France. He has published extensively on the history of economic thought (Classical and Marxian economics, and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French political economy).
