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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors to the two volumes -- Preface -- 1 Prelude: from scholasticism to the Enlightenment -- 2 Pierre de Boisguilbert and the foundations of laissez-faire -- 3 John Law and the Mississippi System -- 4 Science of trade and "commerce politique -- 5 François Quesnay and Physiocracy -- 6 Turgot, Graslin and sensationist political economy -- 7 Political critiques of political economy -- 8 The spirit of geometry: quantification and formalisation -- 9 Postlude: intellectual exchanges and last developments -- Index.
This ambitious book explores the heyday of French political economy, covering the period 1695-1914 -- symbolically starting with Boisguilbert's first publication and closing with the First World War. This first volume deals with the history of political economy in France in the Age of Enlightenment.