François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais
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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]
Life
[edit]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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- 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
References
[edit]- ^ 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" (PDF). The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 26 (6): 1107–1152. doi:10.1080/09672567.2019.1635180. ISSN 0967-2567. S2CID 219644629.
- ^ The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought, ed. Mark Goldie and Robert Wokler, Cambridge University Press, 2006, p.735