Silvant, Claire - In: Revue d'économie politique 120 (2010) 6, pp. 1015-1034
In the middle of the 19th century three French mathematical economists, Jules Dupuit, Augustin Cournot and Gustave Fauveau, develop analyses of taxation which strongly dissent from these of their liberal contemporaries. By trying to give rational principles to public policies, these three...