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Record Nr.

UNINA9911001783103321

Autore

Min Tan

Titolo

The Chinese Origin of Physiocracy / / by Tan Min

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

981-9797-03-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 321 p. 8 illus.)

Disciplina

330.1509

Soggetti

Economics - History

Economic history

Agriculture - Economic aspects

History of Economic Thought and Methodology

Economic History

Agricultural Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Europe’s Chinese vogue in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- François Quesnay and A. R. J. Turgot: Two admirers of China -- The natural order.-Tableau Économique  -- Laissez faire -- Agricultural primacy -- Single impôt territorial, population, and property ownership -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book, by way of a comparative analysis of the main economic viewpoints of the Chinese and Western traditions, shows that the theories of the Physiocrats originated, in a significant way, from ancient Chinese economic thought. Resorting to a large number of relevant Chinese and foreign materials, the author argues convincingly for the great role ancient Chinese thought played in the birth of Western modern economics. The book is funded and published by the Shanghai Marxist Academic Publications Foundation. It systematically and convincingly demonstrates the Physiocrats’ basic economic views and their origins in ancient Chinese thought. This is a very innovative, unique and exciting research. Many scholars in China have regarded the work as a breakthrough in the study of the history of economics, because of which the author has won the second prize of outstanding achievement in Shanghai’s philosophy and social sciences. .