Contents

List of contributors to the two volumes vii

Preface xii

PART I

Political economy in the age of industry 1

1 Prelude I: political economy in the age of industry 3

CLAIRE SILVANT

2 The “founding fathers” of the French liberal thought: A-L-C.

Destutt de Tracy and Jean-Baptiste Say 12

ALAIN B⅛RAUD AND GUY NUMA

3 Liberal economists after Say 40

ALAIN B⅛RAUD AND CLAIRE SILVANT

4 Antoine-Augustin Cournot and the emergence of

mathematical economics 78

ALAIN B⅛RAUD AND GUY NUMA

5 Jules Dupuit and the “ingenieurs economistes” 105

CLAIRE SILVANT

6 Leon Walras: a trilogy of pure, applied and social economics 130

JEAN-PIERRE POTIER

7 Tradition and innovation at the turn of the twentieth century 162

ALAIN B⅛RAUD AND CLAIRE SILVANT

PART II

Critiques of liberal political economy 195

8 Prelude II: introduction to the critiques of political economy 197

GILBERT FACCARELLO

9 Jean-Charles Leonard Simonde de Sismondi 248

PASCAL BRIDEL

10 Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon and the Saint-Simonians 263

RAGIP EGE

11 Associationists and socialists: the first debates 287

CLEMENT COSTE AND LUDOVIC FROBERT

12 Fin-de-siecle socialisms 316

VINCENT BOURDEAU

13 The sociological critique of liberal political economy 341

PHILIPPE STEINER

14 Postlude: after World War I 360

ALAIN B⅛RAUD AND CLAIRE SILVANT

Index

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