This article documents the sudden creation of a significant entrepôt for French wine, particularly Bordeaux claret, in Boulogne-Sur-Mer starting in 1720. Scottish Jacobites who practiced a rebellious version of "fair trade" dominated this commerce, and their network had direct links to...

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...

Current Pinkerian views about the Enlightenment continue a tradition that made it possible to base economic theory on far-fetched assumptions and still appear reasonable to a majority. This was an approach that would make it possible to create theories tailor-made to fit the vested interests of...

"La correspondance de Victor Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715-1789), économiste et physiocrate français, et Marc Charles Frédéric de Sacconay (1714-1788), politicien vaudois et bernois, membre du conseil souverain de l'État de Berne, invite à développer une nouvelle interprétation de...