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The breadth, vigor, and sheer scale of economic debate in the old regime hasattracted surprisingly little notice. Most historians, when they attend to politi-cal economy in eighteenth-century France, think only of the Physiocrats, a smallcoterie of writers notorious for claiming that commerce and manufactures pro-duce no real wealth. As Catherine Larrère observes, Physiocracy is often con-flated with eighteenth-century French political economy tout court.11 This schoolof political economy was the focal point of most research on eighteenth-centuryFrench economic thought until recent decades, and it still attracts a great deal ofscholarly attention. Physiocracy enjoys a privileged status in modern scholarshipbecause, in their own day, the self-styled économistes were such indefatigable self-promoters (no eighteenth-century doctrine enjoyed such single-minded advo-cacy) and also because, in the teleological history-of-economic-theory approach,influential in much twentieth-century scholarship, Physiocracy figured as the mostadvanced eighteenth-century French political economy and therefore as the onedeserving of most consideration.12 But the Physiocrats were only one voice inthe din of

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Author

John Shovlin

Publisher

Cornell University Press ; University Presses Marketing distributor

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801444791

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Economics, Political Science, History