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The Abbé de Condillac's Critique of French Dirigism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2009

Walter  and
Shelagh M. Eltis
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In March 1776 when Etienne Bonnot, abbe de Condillac, published Commerce and Government, he was sixty-one years old, the same age as Francois Quesnay when he first published on economics. According to Jacqueline Hecht he had been a habitué of Quesnay's entresol (1958, p. 252), and Nicholas Baudeau has referred to Condillac's close friendship with Quesnay (1776/1903, p. 443). A book aimed to present a complete account of political economy from one of France's most distinguished philosophers, a member of the Academie franchise (“the immortals”) and the Royal Academy of Berlin, was bound to arouse great interest.

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Journal of the History of Economic Thought , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , September 1999 , pp. 237 - 256
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