To the Physiocrats the French Kingdom is not a wealthy and advanced nation, but rather a poor country which has suffered a century long period of decay. In Extrait des économies royales de M. De Sully which accompany the Tableau èconomique of 1758-59 we read: ‘PAUVRES PAYSANS, PAUVRE ROYAUME’(Quesnay’s emphasis), (Kuzcynski - Meek 1972, p. 10); a synthesis of the evil and damages of contemporary France. This text is made up of twenty four short maxims which accompany the third edition of the Tableau économique, in the first months of 1759; the words quoted refer to a note to maxim fourteen. A similar text, with the emphasis, is in the Maximes générales du gouvernemente économique d’un royaume agricole published in the 1767 in the Physiocratie by Piere Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, a disciple of Francois Quesnay(INED 1958, vol. II, p. 973). These are no secondary places in the work of the master of Physiocracy; in this brief sentence and in that emphasis there is the synthesis and analysis of the main problem of France in the eighteenth-century.
Structural Change and Social Transformation in Physiocracy
VAGGI, GIOVANNI
2004-01-01
Abstract
To the Physiocrats the French Kingdom is not a wealthy and advanced nation, but rather a poor country which has suffered a century long period of decay. In Extrait des économies royales de M. De Sully which accompany the Tableau èconomique of 1758-59 we read: ‘PAUVRES PAYSANS, PAUVRE ROYAUME’(Quesnay’s emphasis), (Kuzcynski - Meek 1972, p. 10); a synthesis of the evil and damages of contemporary France. This text is made up of twenty four short maxims which accompany the third edition of the Tableau économique, in the first months of 1759; the words quoted refer to a note to maxim fourteen. A similar text, with the emphasis, is in the Maximes générales du gouvernemente économique d’un royaume agricole published in the 1767 in the Physiocratie by Piere Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, a disciple of Francois Quesnay(INED 1958, vol. II, p. 973). These are no secondary places in the work of the master of Physiocracy; in this brief sentence and in that emphasis there is the synthesis and analysis of the main problem of France in the eighteenth-century.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
