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François Quesnay, Luigi Pasinetti and the historical contexts of economic theory

2020; Elsevier BV; Volume: 56; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.strueco.2020.10.005

1873-6017

D’Maris Coffman,

Economic Theory and Institutions

In 2002, Professor Luigi L. Pasinetti gave a keynote address at the Raffaele Mattioli Foundation and Library in honour of their acquisition of a rare third edition of François Quesnay's Tableau Économique. This lecture subsequently appeared as a chapter in Italian in the conference volume edited by Giancarlo De Vivo in 2009. In honour of Luigi Pasinetti's 90th birthday, Professor Coffman has offered the first English translation of Pasinetti's essay on Quesnay, which she also introduces by reflecting on its rhetorical strategy, argumentative structure, and Pasinetti's use of Quesnay to critique mainstream neoclassical economics. She ends her introduction by drawing attention to the place of the Tableau within contemporary debates about taxation and the optimal scale and capacities of the state.