A History of Economic Thought in France

ISBN-13: 9780367194444 / Twarda / 2023 / 424 str.

Opis

Traditionally there has been a long and sustained interest in studying the history of economic ideas in France. This second volume analyses the evolution of political economy during the long nineteenth century, combining an assessment of both liberals and their opponents.

Spis treści

Part I. Political Economy in the Age of Industry   1. Prelude I. Political economy in the age of industry  Claire Silvant    2. The founding fathers of the French liberal thought: L.-C.-C. Destutt de Tracy and Jean-Baptiste Say  Alain Béraud & Guy Numa    3. Liberal economists after Say  Alain Béraud & Claire Silvant    4. Antoine-Augustin Cournot and the emergence of mathematical economics  Alain Béraud & Guy Numa    5. Jules Dupuit and the ‘ingénieurs économistes’  Claire Silvant    6. Léon Walras. A trilogy of pure, applied and social economics  Jean-Pierre Potier    7. Tradition and innovation at the turn of the twentieth century  Alain Béraud & Claire Silvant    Part II. Critiques of Liberal Political Economy    8. Prelude II. Introduction to the critiques of political economy  Gilbert Faccarello   9. Jean-Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi  Pascal Bridel    10. Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon and the Saint-Simonians  Ragıp Ege    11. Associationists and socialists: the first debates  Clément Coste & Ludovic Frobert    12. Fin-de-siècle socialisms  Vincent Bourdeau    13. The sociological critique of liberal political economy  Philippe Steiner   14. Postlude. After World War I  Alain Béraud & Claire Silvant

O autorze

Gilbert Faccarello is Emeritus Professor at Panthéon-Assas University, France. He is a co-founder of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought and co-editor of the Routledge Historical Resources site devoted to the History of Economic Thought.

Claire Silvantis is Associate Professor of Economics at the Université Lumière, France, and a member of the research centre Triangle (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). She also was in charge of a research programme on the history of public economics sponsored by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought.