Early French economics, my lecture notes

Early French moralists, some of them Jansenists: Pierre Nicole, La Rochefoucauld, etc. Invisible hand, idea of “mechanism” Pascal, Pensées, 1669, probability and expected value 17th century mercantilism, Louis XIV, Colbert 18th century, Galiani (Italian), French debates on bread and bread prices 1748, Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws, analysis of commerce Diderot, Voltaire, Encyclopedia, rationalism Beccaria […] The post Early French economics, my lecture notes appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTI