1. Introduction / Gilles Jacoud -- 2. On discount banks (first article) / Prosper Enfantin -- 3. On discount banks (second article) / Prosper Enfantin -- 4. Seventh session : constitution of prosperity : organisation of banks / Saint-Amand Bazard. [et al.] -- 5. Fourth letter to the editor of Le...

Helps in understanding a current of thought which contributed to the industrial expansion of the nineteenth century. This book is of interest to postgraduate students, economists, historians and philosophers interested in the history of economic thought

This piece is a review of Dennis C. Rasmussen's book, The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society: Adam Smith's Response to Rousseau (2008). The book superbly explains Rousseau's criticisms of commercial society and Smith's concern with and response to those criticisms. Rasmussen helps us...