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...

During the 16th and 17th centuries, European economies were still largely based on agriculture. Land was the exclusive ownership of landlords and agricultural production was carried out by serfs, or peasants. Industrial production was not significant and was carried out by independent artisans...

The chapter goes over the main stages in the development of Quesnay’s Tableau Économique. The traditional interpretation of this development as a fundamentally continuous process of clarification and elaboration is confirmed. By discussing the opposite view, however, a clearer picture of the...

Put in terms of the two fundamental theorems of welfare economics, social or welfare liberalism is being defined as the tenet criticizing classical liberalism for neglecting the second theorem, having nothing to say about the “liberalism” of macroeconomic policymaking. This note claims that...

In this chapter, we investigate the physiocratic claim that political economy is a new science and shows that it covers a sophisticated and nuanced range of discourses and practices. François Quesnay, the founder of physiocracy, displayed a complex and original conception of science based on...

China’s rise drives a growing impact of China on economics. So far, this mainly works via the force of example, but there is also an emerging role of Chinese thinking in economics. This paper raises the question how far Chinese perspectives can affect certain foundational principles in...

Ákos Navratil (1875-1952) is an outstanding theoretical economist from the first half of the 20th century. A selection of his works was published as volume 8 in the series Classics in Hungarian Economics (Old truths and new theories in economics by Ákos Navratil, (int., ed. by M. Hild)). The...

Ákos Navratil (1875-1952) is an outstanding theoretical economist from the first half of the 20th century. A selection of his works was published as volume 8 in the series Classics in Hungarian Economics (Old truths and new theories in economics by Ákos Navratil, (int., ed. by M. Hild)). The...