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Éloge et critique de l’efficience économique : Quesnay, Smith, Rousseau
Economic efficiency is defined in the 18th century, by Quesnay as well as by Smith, as the maximization of the surplus generated by an economy. For Quesnay, the surplus is consumed for pleasure, while for Smith it is mainly accumulated in order to ...
Claire Pignol
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A Politics of Truth. Despotism and Governmentality in François Quesnay
In the second half of the eighteenth century, in France there was an important attempt to renew the reflection on the practices of government of society. Opposing the Colbertist mercantilism of the previous century, the physiocracy is part of this debate
Pietro Sebastianelli
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The study of focal myositis occurring during Behçet's disease identified a specific vasculitis‐associated focal myopathy. This focal muscular impairment appears to be part of the systemic vasculitis process and presents with a specific clinico‐histological pattern and an unusual relapsing‐remitting course that requires adapted medical management.
Laure Gallay +19 more
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Sophie de Grouchy on the Problem of Economic Inequality
Abstract In this article, I consider Grouchy's critique of economic inequality and her proposed solution to what she perceives as this grave social ill. On her view, economic inequality chips away at the bonds of accountability in society and prevents people from seeing one another as moral equals. As a step toward restoring these bonds between people,
Getty L. Lustila
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The emergence and acceptance of the proposal of the Physiocrats in the mid-eighteenth century prior to the French and industrial revolutions, was the result of abandonment and poverty in which the French peasantry found itself, subjected to unpayable ...
Franklin Cataño +2 more
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Is energy intensity a driver of structural change? Empirical evidence from the global economy
Abstract Input–output tables (IOTs) provide a relevant picture of economic structure as they represent the composition and interindustry relationships of an economy. The technical coefficients matrix (A matrix) is considered to capture the technological status of an economy; so, it is of special relevance for the evaluation of long‐term, structural ...
Jaime Nieto +3 more
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What is liberal about Adam Smith's “liberal plan”?
Abstract By the middle of the eighteenth century the word “liberal” had had multiple non‐political meanings. Adam Smith famously advances “the liberal plan” of political economy. In The Wealth of Nations he indicates several ways that his liberal plan is “liberal” in a non‐political sense.
Erik W. Matson
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A New Local Turn for Track One Peace Process Research: Anthropological Approaches
This article argues for a new local turn in peace process research to analyze the perspectives and local embeddedness of peace process participants in Track One negotiations. Historically, peace process research and practice have focused on mediators’ strategies for coaxing belligerent disputants into signing agreements.
Esther Meininghaus
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Abstract Richard Giles, a leading Australian Georgist political economist, suggests that criticisms of mainstream economics can be reduced to three: neglect of the Physiocrats, rejection of Georgist political economy, and the attempted revival of Georgist land economics with faulty variants of those principles.
Franklin Obeng‐Odoom
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China in Quesnay’s doctrine: Interpretations, translations, cultural aspects
The paper analyzes the Chinese influences on the doctrine of the French physiocrat François Quesnay from the perspective of the cultural specifics of the perception of economic and political ideas.
O. Borokh
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