Eighteenth century economics : Turgot, Beccaria and Smith and their contemporaries / / Peter Groenewegen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450992503321
• Autore: Groenewegen Peter D.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002
• ISBN: 0-429-23235-7; 1-134-46701-X; 1-282-77857-9; 9786612778575; 0-203-45878-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (446 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in the history of economics ; ; 55
• Disciplina: 330/.09/033
• Soggetti: Economics - History - 18th century; Free trade - History - 18th century; Physiocrats; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Prelude; Chronological table of contents; Turgot, Beccaria and Smith; Thoughts on the emergence of economics as a science; New light on the origins of modern economics; Labour and the classical economists; Boisguilbert and eighteenth-century economics; The French connection: some case studies of French influences on British economics in the eighteenth century; Employment and machinery: two classical debates on the effects of automation; The notion of the subsistence wage in pre-Smithian classical political economy: some reflections inspired by the surplus approach WITHSir James Steuart and Richard Cantillon; Editing the classics in the Antipodes: with special reference to the problem of identifying anonymous authors; Laissez-faire: reflections on the French foundations; The physiocrats: the origins of scientific political economy and the single tax; Quesnay's first publication in economics: the article 'Fermiers' for the Encyclopedie an introduction; Du Pont de Nemours ; on the origins and progress of a new science; Reflections on Pietro Verri's political economyA re-appraisal of Turgot's theory of value, exchange and price determination; A re-interpretation of Turgot's theory of capital and interest; Turgot: forerunner of neo-classical economics?; Turgot's place in the history of economic thought: a bicentenary estimate; Turgot and Adam Smith; A new catalogue of Adam Smith's library; Adam Smith and the division of labour: a bicentenaryestimate; Productivity of labour, thrift and economic progress: Adam Smith's optimistic view of economic development; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Peter Groenewegen is one of the world's foremost scholars of eighteenth century economics - the era that saw the effective 'mainstreaming' of the discipline in the work of Smith, Turgot and Quesnay. This collection of essays amounts to the definitive guide to eighteenth century economics and is a must for any economist's bookshelves.Eighteenth Century Economics represents four decades of Peter Groenewegen's research of that period. Presented in chronological order, the essays read not only as an authoritative summary of that period, but also as a guide to the evolution of Gr