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EHS Abstract Submission
(c) 1997 EH.Net
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Name: Martin Staum
Email: mstaum@acs.ucalgary.ca
Institution: University of Calgary
Co-author:
Title: "French Lecturers in Political Economy, 1815-1848:
Varieties of Liberalism"
Type of work: C
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Martin S. Staum
Department of History
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada
Language: English
Abstract:
From 1815 to 1848, Jean-Baptiste Say, and his more or less critical
liberal disciples, Charles Dunoyer, Charles Dupin, Adolphe Blanqui, Michel
Chevalier, Pellegrino Rossi, Joseph Garnier, and Auguste Walras propounded
at the Athinie de Paris, the Conservatoire des Arts et Mitiers, and the
Collhge de France a belief in a universal, nominally observational economic
science. Say and Rossi in fact subscribed to a deductive scientific model,
with little place for mathematicization or statistical testing. Blanqui
and Dupin heralded a dissenting minority view favorable to statistics,
while Dupin, Walras, and civil engineering professors prefigured more
sophisticated mathematical modeling.
The French social context explains in part both the origin of modern
concepts of hostility to government spending and the changing face of
liberalism. While all liberals enshrined property and competition, Says
attack on luxury and unproductive consumption targeted a residual
aristocratic ethic. The liberal lecturers in vain criticized French
protectionism. Industrial crises provoked Rossi, Blanqui, and Chevalier to
assert the supremacy of morals to economics and to question unrestricted
laissez-faire policy. However, the revolution of 1848 led to a re-assertion
of hostility to socialism, unions, and co-operatives.
Bibliography: Martin S. Staum"French Lecturers in Political Economy,
1815-1848: Varieties of Liberalism" History of Political Economy
30.1(1998):95-120
Subject: B12
Geographical Area: 4
Country/Region: France
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