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Communication dans le séminaire du GRHis (Rouen) - Autour de la Révolution française (Michel Biard)
La physiocratie occupe une place majeure dans l’histoire du siècle des Lumières. La doctrine élaborée par le docteur François Quesnay, le marquis de Mirabeau et leurs disciples constitue un modèle original de réforme de la société... more
In this paper we make an intellectual journey through the perception and the understanding of Sparta and Spartiates by the men of the Enlightenment. Some of them took the Spartan citizens as a model of virtues and so, as a paradigm for a... more
A presente investigação centra-se da análise dos dois textos para estudar a escola fisiocrática. Estudamos cinco dos principais princípios enunciados pelo seu mais reconhecido representante, François Quesnay (1694-1774) e igualmente as... more
In order to palpate how social change happens Michel Foucault deployed the term dispositif (most frequently translated into English as “apparatus”), to emphasize the power differential intrinsic in the networked relations of social... more
French rule over Dalmatia in the Napoleonic era (1806–1813) resulted in the gathering of the information about this region, as well as neighboring Bosnia. Travelogues and reports on those lands are so rich and detailed that they can serve... more
Mercantilism and physiocracy: Principal features and applications in Finland
Forthcoming in Globalizations. This century has not been kind to mainstream economics. It has failed to notice the planet is afire. Anti-ecological, it ignores natural limits. Its ‘peak prometheanism’ arrived in the 1980s, but how far... more
The Physiocratic political economy created by the French school in the mid to late 1700s was one of the most important economic influences to the development of not only the revolutionary theory of the Scottish economist Adam Smith, but... more
Recension de : Audrey Provost Le luxe, les Lumières et la Révolution (Seyssel, Champ Vallon, 2014, 272 p.), dans Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 76(1), 194-196. doi:10.1017/ahss.2021.76
This book investigates how a new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France with the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering. With the emergence of these practices, the future transformed from... more
(Δημοσιεύθηκε στην ΕΠΙΘΕΩΡΗΣΗ ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΩΝ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΩΝ, τεύχος 6, 2004,σελ. 103 – 128). Περίληψη. Στο κείμενο αυτό, μέσω λογικής και μεθοδολογικής ανάλυσης της ιστορίας της προμαρξικής πολιτικής οικονομίας, επιχειρείται συνοπτικά η ανάδειξη... more
Differences between the 17th century ‘new moral science’ and Scholastic Natural Law Theory derived primarily from the sceptical challenge the former had to face. Pufendorf ‘s project of a 'scientia practica universalis' was the paramount... more
Corpus. Revue de Philosophie, 2014, p. 17-36. Au titre des « droits naturels et imprescriptibles de l'homme », la Déclaration de 1789 mentionne dans son article 2 : « la liberté, la propriété, la sûreté et la résistance à... more
Kritičke studije politike, Društvena teorija za kritiku kapitalizma: Teorija ideologije i Politička epistemologija humanistike i društvenih nauka. Decembar 2017.
EXTRAIT " À cet égard, la physiocratie d’un Lemercier ne dépasse pas Bodin, même si Bernard Herencia a sans doute raison de souligner une certaine filiation. Mais, à la différence de Bodin qui peut être repensé dans un cadre démocratique,... more
Jamais ailleurs qu'en Grèce, la question de l'être, sa nature, son pourquoi, son devenir et son origine, ne s'est posée. En général les gens sont, sans se poser de question superflue. La nature du questionnement philosophique pose... more
Prix de thèse Franz Stephan 2017 de la Société autrichienne pour l’étude du dix-huitième siècle. Prix Montesquieu 2018 de l’Association française des historiens des idées politiques.
The article supports Dan Edelstein’s claim that the origins of the conception of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen may be seen in the political and legal philosophy of the physiocrats. Carvalho only regrets... more
Magistrat au présidial d’Orléans, Guillaume-François Le Trosne (1728-1780) est à la fois le disciple de Robert-Joseph Pothier, le plus éminent jurisconsulte de son temps, et de François Quesnay, le chef de file du mouvement... more
"La science économique est devenue la forme dominante du discours politique. Elle se présente pourtant volontiers comme le plus neutre et impartial des savoirs. Que signifie cette dénégation du politique de la part d’une science si... more
This paper deals with the Physiocratic contribution to the philosophy of history. Physiocrats are usually suspected of privileging the abstract economic analysis of the timeless “natural order” and neglecting historical change. Yet... more
Conhecida como a primeira escola de economia e como a formuladora da doutrina do laissez-faire associada ao liberalismo, a fisiocracia se apresentava como um sistema de filosofia apoiado na metafísica, na política e na economia. Liderados... more
This panel seeks to interrogate literary, cultural, and pictorial representations of agriculture in Europe and in the world with a focus on divergent views on the exploitation of nature. We are interested in papers exploring/questioning... more
The following article was originally written to discuss a way to pay for the economic consequences of COVID-19 ("Augur of an Era...."). Given new uncertainties in the post-COVID world and the first full-scale European war since World War... more
Le XIXe siècle passe pour le siècle de l’histoire, de sociétés modernes hantées par leurs productions tant matérielles que culturelles, s’arrachant par le travail, la technique et la science aux contraintes de la nature. Notre ouvrage... more
Physiokratie 19-3 Rousseau und die Physiokraten : politische Ideengeschichte im begrifflichen Wandel zwischen Aufklärung und Revolution / Reinhard Bach.-Wien [u.a.] : Böhlau, 2018.-330 S. ; 24 cm.-ISBN 978-3-412-50019-1 : EUR 39.00... more
Money and exchange in the modern constitution This paper provides an interpretation of the classical conception of money as a neutral instrument for pure market exchanges, based on the concept of constitution as proposed by Bruno Latour... more
In a narrative and analytic style, the essay describes the historical roots of modern economic thought with European Liberalism and its laissez faire ideology as a reaction to the era of monopolistic Mercantilism. The objective in the... more
In this article, we show that Quesnay, while himself devoted to a major analytical effort to create what was at the time, like today, assessed as an original and far-reaching social theory, was also very much concerned with the... more
Review of Pernille Røge, Economistes and the Reinvention of Empire: France in the Americas and Africa, c. 1750-1802 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, October 2019), in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas, Vol 10 N° 19... more