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Metaphors in the Wealth of Nations [PDF]

, 2002
This paper reconstructs the ways in which metaphors are used in the text of “The Wealth of Nations”. Its claims are: a) metaphor statements are basically similar to those in the “Theory of the Moral Sentiments”; b) the metaphors’ ‘primary subjects’ refer
Cremaschi, Sergio Volodia Marcello
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Early Modern Political Philosophies and the Shaping of Political Economy [PDF]

, 2017
In the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the paradigm of a new science, political economy, was established. It was a science distinct from the Aristotelian sub-disciplines of practical philosophy named oikonomía and politiké, and emphasis
Cremaschi, Sergio Volodia Marcello
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The four 18th century streams on productive labour

Iberian Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2015
This article first recalls our previous research on the original approach on productive labour, which goes from Petty to Genovesi (1767). That approach, being mainly empirical, divided jobs into more or less productive.
Cosimo Perrotta
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Report on the Bombing of Our Own Troops during Operation “Tractable”: 14 August 1944 [PDF]

, 2012
Editor’s Note: Operation “Tractable“ was the second major Canadian operation in Normandy designed to break through the German defensive perimeter to reach Falaise.
Harris, Arthur T.
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Level of income and income distribution in mid-18th century France, according to Francois Quesnay [PDF]

The paper uses the data from Francois Quesnay's writings to derive a social table for pre-revolutionary France, estimate country's mean income and income distribution.
Milanovic, Branko
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La fisiocràcia i la seva continuació [PDF]

, 2004
La fisiocràcia, primera escola de pensament econòmic, va néixer a França a mitjan segle XVIII. Els seus dos primers impulsors foren François Quesnay i el marquès de Mirabeau, dos personatges de la cort de Lluís XV.
Argemí, Lluís
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Conceptualising rural-urban dynamics [PDF]

This paper revisits the work of Richard Cantillon and Francois Quesnay in order to conceptualise the dynamics between rural and urban areas in an economy.
Thomas, Alex M
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Quesnay and Leontief on Capital and Income [PDF]

I analyze Quesnay's explanation of the "Tableau Economique" of 1766 in order to show that he made a clear distinction between capital and income. In holding this distinction, Quesnay rejected the nowadays currently accepted views that the full value of ...
Ormazabal Sánchez, Kepa Mirena
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Economia política como medicina. A demonstração anatômica fisiocrata na filosofia rural

Estudos Econômicos
A Filosofia Rural (1763) é a obra mais importante da Fisiocracia. Assinada por Mirabeau, mas escrita em conjunto com Quesnay, ela é descrita pelos autores no capítulo 7 como uma “demonstração anatômica” do corpo político representado no Quadro econômico.
Leonardo André Paes Müller
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Cantillon, Quesnay, and the Tableau Economique. [PDF]

Schumpeter argued, long ago, that Quesnay's tableau economique was based on Cantillon, but this claim has never been spelled out in detail and seems not to have been generally accepted, since many writers still write of the tableau economique as though ...
Anthony Brewer
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