S’il existe de nombreuses lois très générales en économie (loi de Malthus, loi de l’offre et de la demande, loi d’Engel, …) qui témoignent du caractère scientifique de la discipline, « les vivres » constituent un champ spécifique, reconnu comme tel, qui débouche sur la...

S’il existe de nombreuses lois très générales en économie (loi de Malthus, loi de l’offre et de la demande, loi d’Engel, …) qui témoignent du caractère scientifique de la discipline, « les vivres » constituent un champ spécifique, reconnu comme tel, qui débouche sur la...

This article examines the foundations of the colonial economics of the liberalism in 1830-1870 in France. The paper illustrates the ambiguous position of liberal economists in the colonial project especially in Algeria. According to the liberal thought, the colonial project is a step toward the...

The first French colonial empire which was formed before the beginning of XVIIIth century was justified by the mercantilists of XVIth and XVIIth centuries. However, during the XVIIIth century, the economic thought is more separated. The first liberals are in favour of the keeping of the empire...

This paper reviews the various types of discourse on the poor and on the relationships between poverty and a number of economic and social institutions that were seen alternatively as either solutions to or causes of poverty. At the beginning of the 19th century, the poor were considered...

Breaking with charity toward the poor, Turgot during the second part of the XVIIIth century, makes a new social policy, very modern, by its content, its methods, and by the underlying economic analysis. He explains poverty by economic reasons and not just by individual behaviour. He thinks that...

S’il existe de nombreuses lois très générales en économie (loi de Malthus, loi de l’offre et de la demande, loi d’Engel, …) qui témoignent du caractère scientifique de la discipline, « les vivres » constituent un champ spécifique, reconnu comme tel, qui débouche sur la...

<alinea/> The mercantilist and classical authors who were the first to look at the causes of economic development privileged, for the most part, social, institutional, political, environmental and moral factors rather than purely economic ones. Thus when taking labour into account, they tended to analyze...

The publication in 1765 of Nicolas Baudeau’s work Idées d’un citoyen sur les besoins, les droits et les devoirs des vrais pauvres is the starting point of an analysis of social misery. Baudeau classifies poverty: poverty by age, poverty by disease, poverty due to accidents of life. This...

L'enrichissement monétaire est l'un des objectifs les plus souvent cités dans les œuvres mercantilistes du XVIIe siècle en France et en Angleterre. Alors que le concept de marché n'existe pas encore réellement avant la fin de cette période, il y a débat sur les meilleures façons de...