Table of Contents

Part I: 1. Turgot, Beccaria and Smith 2. Thoughts on the Emergence of Economics as a Science 3. New Light on the Origins of Modern Economics Part II: 4. Labour and the Classical Economics 5. Boisguilbert and Eighteenth Century Economics 6. The French Connection: Some Case studies of French Influences on British Economics in the Eighteenth Century 7. Employment and Machinery: Two Classical Debates on the Effects of Automation 8. The Notion of the Subsistence Wage in Pre-Smithian Classical Political Economy 9. Sir James Steuart and Richard Cantillon 10. Editing the Classics in the Antipodes with Special Reference to the Problem of Identifying Anonymous Authors Part III: 11. Laissez Faire: Reflections on the French Foundations 12. The Physiocrats: the Origins of Scientific Economics and the Single Tax 13. Quesnay's First Publication in Economics: the Article Fermier for the Encyclopédie 14. Du Pont de Nemours on the Origins and Progress of a New Science 15. Reflections on Pietro Verri's Political Economy 16. A Re-Appraisal of Turgot's Theory of Value, Exchange and Price Determination 17. A Reinterpretation of Turgot's Theory of Capital and Interest 18. Turgot: Forerunner of Neo-Classical Economics? 19. Turgot's Place in the History of Economic Thought: a Bicentenary Estimate 20. Turgot and Adam Smith 21. A New Catalogue of Adam Smith's Library 22. Adam Smith and the Division of Labour: a Bicentenary Estimate 23. Productivity of Labour, Thrift and Economic Progress: Adam Smith's Optimistic View of Economic Development

About the Author

Peter Groenewegen is Professor of Economics at the University of Sydney