Generally we take into account Vauban?s work as divided into two parts: the Traité de l?attaque des places on the one hand, the project of Dîme royale on the other hand. On the contrary we point out the profound unity of this work from a methodological point of view and from a political point...

Philosopher, Diderot is not an economist, but numerous remarks in his work, allow us to locate him amongst the different thinking streams of his time. The Prospectus as the Opening speech of Encyclopaedia locate economy into the knowlege tree. Branch of philosophy, and raising of ethic, economy...