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From 1759 to 1762, François Quesnay had systematically appealed to an obscure physiocrat, Charles Richard de Butré, when he had to make a numerical estimate or to do a nonelementary computation. In the present article, we use two important unpublished writings by Butré to discuss and assess...
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In order to discuss the ‘rational foundation’ of certain aspects of Quesnay´s theory we use a simple formalization of the necessary connections between assumptions about the techniques in use, the distribution of income between the classes and sectors, the system of relative prices. We...
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At the end of the 17th century capitalism had become the new social and economic order in northern Western Europe. Ever since the trading channels through which money and commodities change hands between the different agents, the actual sequence of these all-comprising monetary exchange...
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: 'mercantilism' and 'physiocracy'. Whilst it may be possible to see 'mercantilists' and physiocrats belonging to different 'paradigms …
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In France the XVIIIth century was characterized by the Enlightenment as a philosophical phenomenon and Physiocracy as … the theory and significance of the Physiocracy it is necessary to take into account the circumstances of its time …. Physiocracy is a doctrine which esteems that agriculture is of more importance than industry and commerce. In the above article …
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performing the political and economic doctrine of which he was an active promoter all through his life: physiocracy. In all of … physiocracy's main propositions only came later, in a diffuse and partial way. We contend that this relative failure of …
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In this article, we show that Quesnay, while himself devoted to a major analytical effort to create what was at the time, like today, assessed as an original and far-reaching social theory, was also very much concerned with the development of a systematic empirical inquiry of French economy and...
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-political framework, the theoretical economic analysis and the main maxims of the economic government. We conclude that Physiocracy …
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physiocracy moved from Versailles to Paris, and the workshop was gradually replaced by the physiocratic school. …
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