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Adam Smith in Toulouse and Occitania

The Unknown Years

By: Alain Alcouffe,Philippe Massot-Bordenave

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Adam Smith in Toulouse and Occitania

The Unknown Years

By: Alain Alcouffe,Philippe Massot-Bordenave

This book provides substantial background on what Adam Smith did during his stay in Toulouse and the Languedoc region of France during the 18th century. This is a crucial period in Smith’s life for at least two reasons: i) it is during this time that Smith began to work on The Wealth of Nations; and ii) it is generally understood that although some of his ideas about political economy were already formed before his trip, his encounters with many French political economists during his time in France helped him to further develop them. As such, this book provides a rich resource to further understanding Smith's world, his travel experiences and the people he met during this time and situates these within the broader context of Smith's life as a whole, and within the British aristocracy. This work will be of value to students and researchers in the history of economic thought, travel studies and Scottish studies.

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Springer Nature

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3030465780

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French Painting in the Seventeenth Century

By: Alain Mérot

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French Painting in the Seventeenth Century

By: Alain Mérot

Recent studies and exhibitions, combined with the discovery of work by hitherto little-known artists have enabled Merot to take a fresh look at the period and to suggest a new configuration. The great names of the period - Poussin, Vouet, Le Sueur, de La Tour, Mignard - are located in relation to other developments. Merot includes discussion of the impact of contemporary literature and political, philosophical and social influences. The foundation of the Royal Academy of Painting in 1648, and the influence of Mazarin on artistic developments are considered with other issues of status, patronage and connoisseurship. The book provides a panorama of the period; the text is profusely illustrated in colour, and accompanied by a comprehensive bibliography.

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336

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Yale University Press

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0300065507

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9780300065503

Value, Historicity, and Economic Epistemology

An Archaeology of Economic Science

By: Alain Herscovici

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Value, Historicity, and Economic Epistemology

An Archaeology of Economic Science

By: Alain Herscovici

This book aims to study, from an approach linked to epistemology and the history of ideas, the evolution of economic science and its differing seminal systems. Today mainstream economics solves certain problems chosen within the scope of “normal science,” without questioning the epistemological foundations that support the paradigm within which they were conceived. Contrary to a Neoclassical interpretation, the historicist interpretation shows that, from the incommensurability of the different paradigms, it is impossible to conceive of a progress of economic science, in a long-term perspective. This book ultimately reveals, from the different economic schools of thought analyzed, that there is no pure form of episteme, or system of understanding. Each concrete episteme in the history of economic thought is by nature hybrid in the sense that it contains components from preceding systems of knowledge.

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Springer Nature

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303121157X

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9783031211577

Adam Smith in Toulouse and Occitania

The Unknown Years

By: Alain Alcouffe,Philippe Massot-Bordenave

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Adam Smith in Toulouse and Occitania

Adam Smith in Toulouse and Occitania

French Painting in the Seventeenth Century

French Painting in the Seventeenth Century

Value, Historicity, and Economic Epistemology

Value, Historicity, and Economic Epistemology

Adam Smith in Toulouse and Occitania

Adam Smith in Toulouse and Occitania

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