François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais
François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais (1722–1800) was a French political economist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.[1][2]
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Portrait of François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais painted by Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Life
François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais was born in Le Mans and educated in Paris. After working for his father's textile business, he settled in Paris and became inspector-general of the French coinage in 1752.[3]
He edited the Journal de l’agriculture, du commerce et des finances in the 1760s, and would help draw up Le Mans' noble Cahier de Doleances in 1789.
Works
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Elemens du commerce, 1754
- Considérations sur les finances d'Espagne, 1753
- Elémens du commerce, 1754
- Questions sur le commerce des françois au Levant, 1755
- Essai sur l'admission des navires neutres dans nos colonies, 1756
- Recherches et considérations sur les finances de France depuis 1595 jusqu'en 1721, 1758
- Principes et observations oeconomiques, 1767
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gollark: But hours are generally just defined as 24ths of a day.
gollark: But what even *is* a "day"?
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gollark: But what's the day two light-months away from Earth?
References
- Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs des dix-sept volumes de « discours » de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie. 1989, Volume 7, Numéro 7, p. 141
- Berg, Richard van den (2019-11-02). "Circular reasoning. Forbonnais and the intricate history of circular flow analysis in the 1750s". The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 26 (6): 1107–1152. doi:10.1080/09672567.2019.1635180. ISSN 0967-2567.
- The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought, ed. Mark Goldie and Robert Wokler, Cambridge University Press, 2006, p.735
External links
- Works by or about François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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