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AUTHORITIES - Henry Higgs, The Physiocrats: Six Lectures on the French Economistes of the 18th Century [1897]

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The Physiocrats: Six Lectures on the French Economistes of the 18th Century (London: Macmillan and Co., 1897).

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AUTHORITIES

Lecture I

H. Taine, L'Ancien Régime, bk. v., Le Peuple, 1875; R. Stourm, Les finances de l'aneien régime; C. Knies, Introduction to Carl Fried-richs von Baden brieflicher Verkehr mit Mirabcau and Du Pont (Heidelberg, 1892, 2 vols.); articles on Cantillon by W. S. Jevons in Contemporary Review, Jan. 1881, and by H. Higgs in Economic Journal, June 1891, and in Quarterly Journal of Economics (Harvard, U.S.A.), July 1892; L. de Loménie, Les Mirabcau (Paris, 1889–1891, 5 vols.); L. de Lavergne, Les économistes français du XVIIIesiècle (Paris, 1870).

Lecture II

Tableau Oeconomique (printed for the British Economic Association, London, 1894); G. Kellner, Zur Geschichte des Physiocratismus (Göttingen, 1847); A. Oncken, Œuvres de Quesnay (Frankfort), 1888; do. (Die Maxime Laissez-faire et Laissez-passer, ihr Ursprung, ihr Werden (Berne, 1886); do., Zur Geschichte der Physiokratie in Schmoller's Jahrbuch for 1893; S. Bauer, Zur Geschichte der Physiokratie in Conrad's Jahrbucher for August 1890; do., Quesnay's Tableau Oeconomique in Economic Journal for March 1895! W. Has-bach, Die allgemeinen philcsophischen Grundlagen der von François Quesnay und Adam Smith begriindeten politischen Oekonomie (Leipzig, 1890).

Lecture III

A. Stern, Das Leben Mirabeaus (Berlin, 1889); A. Oncken, Der altere Mirabeau und die okonomische Gesellschaft in Bern (Berne, 1886); G. Schelle, Du Pont de Nemours et l' École physiocratique (Paris, 1888); E. Daire, Les Physiocrates (Paris, 1846,2 vols.); R. Reuss, C∗. de Butré (Strashburg, 1890); L. Say, Turgot (Paris, 1887), translated by G. Masson (London, 1888).

Lecture IV

A. Emminghaus in Conrad's Jahrbuch for 1872; J. Rae, Life of Adam Smith (London, 1893); A. Oncken, Ludwig XVI. und das physiokratische System, in Zeitsckrift für Litteratur und Geschichte der Staatswissenschaften, 1893; A. von Miaskowski, Isaak Iselin (Basle, 1875); W. B. Hodgson, Turgot: his Life, Times, and Opinions (London, 1870).

Lecture V

L. Cossa, Guide to the Study of Political Economy (London, 1890); J. Kautz, Die geschichtlicke Entwickelung der Nationalökonomik (Leipzig, 1868); J. Ingram, History of Political Economy (London, 1888); W. Roscher, Geschichte der Nationalökonomie in Deutschland (Leipzig, 1874); also the articles Physiocrates and Physiokratische Schule in the French and German Dictionaries of Political Economy, and, generally, under the names of all the authors mentioned in the Lectures, the articles in these Dictionaries and in the English Dictionary of Political Economy now approaching completion.

Lecture VI

Gomel, Les causes financeres de la revolution française; A. De Tocqueville, L'Ancien Régime (1859); L. Blanc, Histoire de la revolution française, vol. i; G. Cohn, History of Political Economy (1894); Hector Denis in Annales de l' institut des sciences sociales (Bruxelles, Jan. 1896); S. Feilbogen, Smith und Turgot (Vienna, 1892); J. Bonar, Philosophy and Political Economy (London, 1893); W. Hasbach, Les fondements philosophiques de l' économie politique de Quesnay et de Smith in Révue d'économic Politique (September, 1893).