ABSTRACT

Peter Groenewegen is one of the world's foremost scholars of eighteenth century economics - the era that saw the effective 'mainstreaming' of the discipline in the work of Smith, Turgot and Quesnay. This collection of essays amounts to the definitive guide to eighteenth century economics and is a must for any economist's bookshelves.Eighteenth Cent

part |2 pages

Part I

chapter 1|45 pages

Turgot, Beccaria and Smith

part |2 pages

Part II

chapter 4|12 pages

Labour and the classical economists

chapter 6|19 pages

The French connection

Some case studies of French influences on British economics in the eighteenth century

chapter 7|13 pages

Employment and machinery

Two classical debates on the effects of automation

chapter 8|23 pages

The notion of the subsistence wage in pre-Smithian classical political economy

Some reflections inspired by the surplus approach

chapter 9|13 pages

Sir James Steuart and Richard Cantillon

chapter 10|16 pages

Editing the classics in the Antipodes

With special reference to the problem of identifying anonymous authors

part |2 pages

Part III

chapter 11|11 pages

Laissez-faire

Reflections on the French foundations

chapter 12|25 pages

The physiocrats

The origins of scientific political economy and the single tax

chapter 18|17 pages

Turgot

Forerunner of neo-classical economics?

chapter 19|32 pages

Turgot’s place in the history of economic thought

A bicentenary estimate

chapter 20|16 pages

Turgot and Adam Smith

chapter 21|9 pages

A new catalogue of Adam Smith’s library

chapter 22|17 pages

Adam Smith and the division of labour

A bicentenary estimate

chapter 23|8 pages

Productivity of labour, thrift and economic progress

Adam Smith’s optimistic view of economic development