BOISGUILBERT, PIERRE LE PESANT, SIEUR DE

pyĕr lə pəzäNˈ syör də bwägēlbĕrˈ, 1646–1714, French economist. A local official of Rouen after 1689, he proposed a radical alteration of the French fiscal system in order to revive the finances of the nearly bankrupt state. Seeing the results of King Louis XIV's military expenditures in heavy taxation and oppression of the poor, Boisguilbert urged an income tax of 10%, particularly in Le Détail de la France (1695) and Factum de la France (1707). He insistently forced his advice on Michel Chamillart, controller general to Louis XIV. Chamillart had him exiled for six months in 1707. His name also appears as Boisguillebert.

See biography by H. V. Roberts (1935).

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Eighteenth Century Economics: Turgot, Beccaria and Smith and Their Contemporaries
Book by Peter Groenewegen; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Economics--History--18th Century, Free Trade--History--18th Century, Physiocrats, Quesnay, Fran?Cois--1694-1774, Smith, Adam--1723-1790, Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques--Baron De L'Aulne--1727-1781
...Hecht, Jacqueline ed. 1989 Boisguilbert Parmi Nous , Paris: Institut...Capital selon Karl Marx, Boisguilbert, Quesnay, Leontiev , Brussels...Seligman, E. R. A. 1930 Boisguilbert, Pierre le Pesant, Sieur de 1646-1714 , in E. R...
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Before the Deluge: Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution
Book by Michael Sonenscher; Princeton University Press, 2007
Subjects: France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Causes
...162; on monarchy, 150 52 Boisguilbert, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de, 200 Bolingbroke, Henry...Breteuil, Louis-Charles-Auguste Le Tonnelier, baron de, 158 Brienne...Lomenie de, 23 Brissot, Jacques-Pierre, 322 Britain, 4, 36, 41 52...
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Essays on Philosophical Subjects
Book by Adam Smith, W. P.D. Wightman, J. C. Bryce, Dugald Stewart, I. S. Ross, D. D. Raphael, A. S. Skinner; Oxford University Press, 1980
...234 -5, 239 Alembert, Jean Le Rond d, 11 , 9 -11, 92 n...Louis, lAbbe, 303 n. , 338 Boisguilbert, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de, 345 n. Bonar, J., 199...231 n. , 305 -6 n. Bouguer, Pierre, 7 , 101 n. Boulliau, Ismael...
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Capitalism in Amsterdam in the Seventeenth Century
Book by Violet Barbour; Johns Hopkins Press, 1950
Subjects: Amsterdam (Netherlands)--Commerce, Finance--Netherlands--Amsterdam
...Holland in 1660," 60 n.; ed., " Memoire touchant le negoce et la navigation des Hollandois. Dressee...lande door Vreemde Mogendheden aangegaan, 126 n. Boisguilbert, Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de, 82. Boislisle, A. M. de, ed., Correspondance...
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Richard Cantillon: Pioneer of Economic Theory
Book by Anthony Brewer; Routledge, 1992
...et la Petite Culture , University of Sydney: Reprints of Economic Classics, series 2, no. 2. 1987a Boisguilbert, Pierre le Pesant, Sieur de, in J. Eatwell, M. Milgate, and P. Newman eds The New Palgrave: a Dictionary of Economics...
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BOISGUILBERT, PIERRE LE PESANT, SIEUR DE pyer l p zaN syor d bwagelber...taxation and oppression of the poor, Boisguilbert urged an income tax of 10%, particularly in Le Detail de la France (1695) and Factum...


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