Author: Jean Cartelier
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2296491847
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : fr
Pages : 244
Book Description
Au sommaire de cet ouvrage : François Quesnay : Wealth, Science, Societies / Nobility and Royaume agricole : The Tableau économique as a Political Utopia / Graslin and Forbonnais against the Tableau économique / François Quesnay : Editions and Interpretations / The "Journal de l'Agriculture, du Commerce et des Finances" / The "Ephémérides du Citoyen" / The Library of Français Quesnay.
Quesnay and Physiocracy
Author: Jean Cartelier
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2296491847
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : fr
Pages : 244
Book Description
Au sommaire de cet ouvrage : François Quesnay : Wealth, Science, Societies / Nobility and Royaume agricole : The Tableau économique as a Political Utopia / Graslin and Forbonnais against the Tableau économique / François Quesnay : Editions and Interpretations / The "Journal de l'Agriculture, du Commerce et des Finances" / The "Ephémérides du Citoyen" / The Library of Français Quesnay.
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2296491847
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : fr
Pages : 244
Book Description
Au sommaire de cet ouvrage : François Quesnay : Wealth, Science, Societies / Nobility and Royaume agricole : The Tableau économique as a Political Utopia / Graslin and Forbonnais against the Tableau économique / François Quesnay : Editions and Interpretations / The "Journal de l'Agriculture, du Commerce et des Finances" / The "Ephémérides du Citoyen" / The Library of Français Quesnay.
The Physiocrats and the World of the Enlightenment
Author: Liana Vardi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107021197
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Offers a framework for understanding physiocratic theory and the development of modern economics.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107021197
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Offers a framework for understanding physiocratic theory and the development of modern economics.
Economics of Physiocracy
Author: Ronald L. Meek
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136509186
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The birth of Physiocracy was the birth of the science of economics in the broad general form in which it is known to us today. It is surprising therefore that the Physiocrats should have received so little attention from economists in the English-speaking world. This book fills that gap. The volume begins with a deliberately non-specialist introduction. Translations of Physiocratic writings then follow and the final section of the book consists of specialized essays, dealing with certain aspects of the Physiocratic doctrine, its history and its influence.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136509186
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
The birth of Physiocracy was the birth of the science of economics in the broad general form in which it is known to us today. It is surprising therefore that the Physiocrats should have received so little attention from economists in the English-speaking world. This book fills that gap. The volume begins with a deliberately non-specialist introduction. Translations of Physiocratic writings then follow and the final section of the book consists of specialized essays, dealing with certain aspects of the Physiocratic doctrine, its history and its influence.
The Economics of François Quesnay
Author: Gianni Vaggi
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822307570
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Cambridge)Includes index. Bibliography: p. 221-229.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822307570
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Cambridge)Includes index. Bibliography: p. 221-229.
The Physiocrats
Author: Henry Higgs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The Economic Turn
Author: Steven Kaplan
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783088575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
The mid-eighteenth century witnessed what might be dubbed an economic turn that resolutely changed the trajectory of world history. The discipline of economics itself emerged amidst this turn, and it is frequently traced back to the work of François Quesnay and his school of Physiocracy. Though lionized by the subsequent historiography of economics, the theoretical postulates and policy consequences of Physiocracy were disastrous at the time, resulting in a veritable subsistence trauma in France. This galvanized relentless and diverse critiques of the doctrine not only in France but also throughout the European world that have, hitherto, been largely neglected by scholars. Though Physiocracy was an integral part of the economic turn, it was rapidly overcome, both theoretically and practically, with durable and important consequences for the history of political economy. The Economic Turn brings together some of the leading historians of that moment to fundamentally recast our understanding of the origins and diverse natures of political economy in the Enlightenment.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783088575
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
The mid-eighteenth century witnessed what might be dubbed an economic turn that resolutely changed the trajectory of world history. The discipline of economics itself emerged amidst this turn, and it is frequently traced back to the work of François Quesnay and his school of Physiocracy. Though lionized by the subsequent historiography of economics, the theoretical postulates and policy consequences of Physiocracy were disastrous at the time, resulting in a veritable subsistence trauma in France. This galvanized relentless and diverse critiques of the doctrine not only in France but also throughout the European world that have, hitherto, been largely neglected by scholars. Though Physiocracy was an integral part of the economic turn, it was rapidly overcome, both theoretically and practically, with durable and important consequences for the history of political economy. The Economic Turn brings together some of the leading historians of that moment to fundamentally recast our understanding of the origins and diverse natures of political economy in the Enlightenment.
An Inquiry into Physiocracy (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Max Beer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317674685
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The common understanding of physiocracy – the school of eighteenth-century political economy associated with thinkers such as Boisguillebert and Quesnay – is often confined to the view that it considered agriculture the only source of wealth, and manufacture, trade and export as unproductive. The limitations of this view are particularly acute for those wishing to chart the ancien régime as it approached 1789. First published in 1939, this study attempts to answer such questions as: What is the meaning of physiocracy? What is the provenance of its various doctrines? What were its ultimate intentions? For many it is unclear how the physiocrats could expound such views against all the arguments employed by their opponents: particularly so given that, among them, were men revered by the likes of Adam Smith, either as profound thinkers, such as Quesnay, or as statesmen, such as Turgot.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317674685
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
The common understanding of physiocracy – the school of eighteenth-century political economy associated with thinkers such as Boisguillebert and Quesnay – is often confined to the view that it considered agriculture the only source of wealth, and manufacture, trade and export as unproductive. The limitations of this view are particularly acute for those wishing to chart the ancien régime as it approached 1789. First published in 1939, this study attempts to answer such questions as: What is the meaning of physiocracy? What is the provenance of its various doctrines? What were its ultimate intentions? For many it is unclear how the physiocrats could expound such views against all the arguments employed by their opponents: particularly so given that, among them, were men revered by the likes of Adam Smith, either as profound thinkers, such as Quesnay, or as statesmen, such as Turgot.
The Economics of Physiocracy
Author: Ronald L. Meek
Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1963 c1962
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1963 c1962
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Economical Table
Author: Francois Quesnay
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781410215543
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A physician to Louis XV, Francois Quesnay founded an 18th century French school of thinkers, the Physiocrats, who evolved the first complete system of economics. Central to their theory was the belief that absolute freedom of trade is essential to guarantee the most beneficial operation of economic law. The Economical Table (1758) is Quesnay's most important work.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781410215543
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A physician to Louis XV, Francois Quesnay founded an 18th century French school of thinkers, the Physiocrats, who evolved the first complete system of economics. Central to their theory was the belief that absolute freedom of trade is essential to guarantee the most beneficial operation of economic law. The Economical Table (1758) is Quesnay's most important work.
The Physiocratic Economics of Francois Quesnay
Author: Daniel Carter Carbaugh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This thesis investigates the theoretical principles of the first school of economic thought, presented by its founder and major exponent, Francois Quesnay. The socio-historical background of Bourbon France is presented to show how Quesnay's position arose out of and was conditioned by this social environment, for Quesnay's theory represented an attempt to come to grips with and to resolve the economic and social problems of his time. The three major purposes of this thesis grow out of this exposition. The first purpose is to explicate Quesnay's theory. To do this it is necessary to resolve a number of problems arising from various interpretations of the zig-zag diagram and to outline Quesnay's meaning of disequilibrium. The first of these problems is the resolution of certain inconsistencies and ambiguities found in various interpretations of the zig-zag diagram of the "Tableau économique". By analyzing Quesnay's own explanation of this diagram, I have been able to construct a consistent and a comprehensive interpretation of the zig-zag diagram which is simple and is also in agreement with Quesnay's remarks. The most important conclusion to be drawn concerning the zig-zag diagram is that the figures represent solely the circulation of the monetary revenue. Any interpretations, therefore, that involve the physical productivity of the farmers and/or that deal with physical units are both superfluous and erroneous. Interpretations leading to the conclusion that the sums received by the farmers are "doubled" in their hands have confused physical productivity with the simple accounting devices of the "Tableau". The second problem investigated is Quesnay's meaning of disequilibrium. Closely associated is the explanation of Quesnay's special conception of hoarding and his static theory of money. Quesnay's theory of disequilibrium resulted in a unique type of underconsumption economics. From his theory of value, that only agriculture yields a surplus, he surmised that a shift of effective demand from the purchase of agricultural commodities to other commodities and a shift of capital from employment in agriculture to other employments would lead to a depression. This position later led J.B. Say to formulate his law of markets as an alternative to and a refutation of underconsumption economics. Say's law, paradoxically, was based on another physiocratic principle, circular flow. My second major purpose, therefore, is to investigate Quesnay's influence on the development of Say's law and to establish Quesnay's place in the history of economic thought. Quesnay observed that all societies have a common economic physiology whose character and operation lend themselves to standardized analysis both quantitative and qualitative. His use of models is significant, for it is this approach that permits economists to abstract from the whole congeries of human phenomena certain aspects called economic behavior, and to reduce the complexity of economic behavior to understandable associations and relationships. The third major purpose is to suggest some of the possible trends that might have occurred in economics had Quesnay's ideas been taken as the basis for this science. My conclusions are closely related to this purpose. Physiocracy was based on a philosophy of action. Quesnay developed a theory of depressions and linked the level of economic activity to the pattern of resource allocation. He took a macro-economic approach and seemed to be as impressed by science and technology as economists (particularly institutionalists) are today. Quesnay viewed economics as a pragmatic, normative social philosophy. If these "heterodox" ideas had been incorporated into economics from the start, the problems arising from the conception of the automatically self-regulating economy might have been avoided.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This thesis investigates the theoretical principles of the first school of economic thought, presented by its founder and major exponent, Francois Quesnay. The socio-historical background of Bourbon France is presented to show how Quesnay's position arose out of and was conditioned by this social environment, for Quesnay's theory represented an attempt to come to grips with and to resolve the economic and social problems of his time. The three major purposes of this thesis grow out of this exposition. The first purpose is to explicate Quesnay's theory. To do this it is necessary to resolve a number of problems arising from various interpretations of the zig-zag diagram and to outline Quesnay's meaning of disequilibrium. The first of these problems is the resolution of certain inconsistencies and ambiguities found in various interpretations of the zig-zag diagram of the "Tableau économique". By analyzing Quesnay's own explanation of this diagram, I have been able to construct a consistent and a comprehensive interpretation of the zig-zag diagram which is simple and is also in agreement with Quesnay's remarks. The most important conclusion to be drawn concerning the zig-zag diagram is that the figures represent solely the circulation of the monetary revenue. Any interpretations, therefore, that involve the physical productivity of the farmers and/or that deal with physical units are both superfluous and erroneous. Interpretations leading to the conclusion that the sums received by the farmers are "doubled" in their hands have confused physical productivity with the simple accounting devices of the "Tableau". The second problem investigated is Quesnay's meaning of disequilibrium. Closely associated is the explanation of Quesnay's special conception of hoarding and his static theory of money. Quesnay's theory of disequilibrium resulted in a unique type of underconsumption economics. From his theory of value, that only agriculture yields a surplus, he surmised that a shift of effective demand from the purchase of agricultural commodities to other commodities and a shift of capital from employment in agriculture to other employments would lead to a depression. This position later led J.B. Say to formulate his law of markets as an alternative to and a refutation of underconsumption economics. Say's law, paradoxically, was based on another physiocratic principle, circular flow. My second major purpose, therefore, is to investigate Quesnay's influence on the development of Say's law and to establish Quesnay's place in the history of economic thought. Quesnay observed that all societies have a common economic physiology whose character and operation lend themselves to standardized analysis both quantitative and qualitative. His use of models is significant, for it is this approach that permits economists to abstract from the whole congeries of human phenomena certain aspects called economic behavior, and to reduce the complexity of economic behavior to understandable associations and relationships. The third major purpose is to suggest some of the possible trends that might have occurred in economics had Quesnay's ideas been taken as the basis for this science. My conclusions are closely related to this purpose. Physiocracy was based on a philosophy of action. Quesnay developed a theory of depressions and linked the level of economic activity to the pattern of resource allocation. He took a macro-economic approach and seemed to be as impressed by science and technology as economists (particularly institutionalists) are today. Quesnay viewed economics as a pragmatic, normative social philosophy. If these "heterodox" ideas had been incorporated into economics from the start, the problems arising from the conception of the automatically self-regulating economy might have been avoided.