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Jean-Baptiste Say belongs to the important names of the French Political Economy of the XIXth century. Because of its role in the process of institutionalization of political economy, his even more famous abroad. The knowledge of Say's works remained however partial until now, for lack of a...
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On a trop tendance encore aujourd'hui à assimiler la « libre concurrence » chez Léon Walras et la « concurrence pure et parfaite » comme structure de marché de la vulgate néo-classique. Nous chercherons à montrer dans cette étude que chez Walras, la libre concurrence, quel que soit le...
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Throughout the history of economic ideas, it has often been asserted that experimentation is impossible, yet, in fact, history shows that the idea of 'experimentation' has always been important, and as such has been interpreted and put to use in many ways. Rich in historical detail, the essays...
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This paper discusses the concepts of "stock" and "capital", as envisaged in The Wealth of Nations, from the perspective of their translation into French. Clearly the translation of "stock" poses serious problems, to which one must add Smith's continual hesitations between a definition of...
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It is the purpose of this note to appraise the relevance of the point made by Gérard Pelletier in his "L'Entrepreneur dans la pensée économique : l’originalité méconnue de Turgot" (L’Actualité économique, vol. 66, June 1990) that Turgot developed an original theory of the...
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Throughout the history of economic ideas, it has often been asserted that experimentation is impossible, yet, in fact, history shows that the idea of 'experimentation' has always been important, and as such has been interpreted and put to use in many ways. Rich in historical detail, the essays...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608741