Some Problems of General Economic History n°3 (1947)

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[5] General Economic History
Spring Session, 1947
N°3
2.1.2. Views on the place of the economic system in society from Montesquieu to Max Weber

To establish the study of general economic history on the foundations of adequate method, it is necessary to safeguard against the unconscious influence of definitions developed in the field of economic analysis.

It will be found useful, therefore, to give a bird's eye view of the history of economics from Montesquieu and the Physiocrats to Marx, Menger, and Max Weber. We are taking here the term “economics” in the broadest sense, in which the study of economic institutions as well as that of the laws governing the price … […]

We will list the chief thinkers according to our main viewpoint in roughly five chronologically overlaping groups:
(1) Original societal approach:
Montesquieu (1748)
François Quesnay (1758)
Adam Smith (1776)
(2) Original economistic approach:
Townsend (1786)
Malthus (1798)
Ricardo (1817)
(3) Return to societal approach:
Carey (1837)
List (1841)
Marx (1859)
(4) Return to economistic approach:
Menger (1871)
(5) Synthesis of (3) and (4):
Max weber (1905)

Discussion:
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Date: Spring 1947
KPA: 31/03, 5-8