Eighteenth Century Economics: Turgot, Beccaria and Smith and Their Contemporaries

Table of contents

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• Title Page v
• Contents vii
• Illustrations ix
• Preface xi
• Acknowledgements xiii
• Prelude xv
• References xxi
• Chronological Table of Contents xxiii
• Part I 1
• 1 - Turgot, Beccaria and Smith 3
• 2 - Thoughts on the Emergence of Economics as a Science 48
• References 73
• 3 - New Light on the Origins of Modern Economics 76
• Notes 92
• Part II 97
• 4 - Labour and the Classical Economists 99

• Title Page v
• Contents vii
• Illustrations ix
• Preface xi
• Acknowledgements xiii
• Prelude xv
• References xxi
• Chronological Table of Contents xxiii
• Part I 1
• 1 - Turgot, Beccaria and Smith 3
• 2 - Thoughts on the Emergence of Economics as a Science 48
• References 73
• 3 - New Light on the Origins of Modern Economics 76
• Notes 92
• Part II 97
• 4 - Labour and the Classical Economists 99
• 5 - Boisguilbert and Eighteenth-Century Economics 111
• 6 - The French Connection 125
• Notes 140
• 7 - Employment and Machinery 144
• 8 - The Notion of the Subsistence Wage in Pre-Smithian Classical Political Economy 157
• References 177
• 9 - Sir James Steuart and Richard Cantillon 180
• References 192
• 10 - Editing the Classics in the Antipodes 193
• Part III 209
• 11 - Laissez-Faire 211
• 12 - The Physiocrats 222
• 13 - Quesnay’s First Publication in Economics 247
• 14 - Du Pont De Nemours on the Origins and Progress of a New Science 263
• 15 - Reflections on Pietro Verri’s Political Economy 270
• 16 - A Re-Appraisal of Turgot’s Theory of Value, Exchange and Price Determination 282
• 17 - A Re-Interpretation of Turgot’s Theory of Capital and Interest 299
• 18 - Turgot 314
• 19 - Turgot’s Place in the History of Economic Thought 331
• 20 - Turgot and Adam Smith 363
• 21 - A New Catalogue of Adam Smith’s Library 379
• Notes 385
• 22 - Adam Smith and Thedivision of Labour 388
• 23 - Productivity of Labour, Thrift and Economic Progress 405
• Index 413