Turgot on Progress, Sociology and Economics : A Philosophical Review of the Successive Advances of the Human Mind on Universal History Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Wealth (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politic

Meek, Ronald L.

Cambridge University Press（2010/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 194 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521153348
• DDC分類 194

基本説明

There was also a Hardback of this title but it is no longer available. This volume explores the renowned author and lecturer A. R. J. Turgot (1727-81) through three different essays.

Full Description

A. R. J. Turgot (1727-81), one of the greatest thinkers of the century of the Enlightenment, is known to political historians as a pioneer of the doctrine of universal progress, which he first put forward when a student at the Sorbonne in a lecture on The Successive Advances of the Human Mind. He is also well known to economists as the author of Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Wealth, in which he anticipated - and in some respects surpassed - the theoretical system of classical political economy. In this volume, translations of these two works are printed together with a lesser-known work entitled On Universal History, which should be of great interest to sociologists. Professor Meek has prefaced his own translations of the three texts with an introduction in which he analyses the interesting interrelationship between Turgot's political, economic and sociological theories.

Contents

Introduction; Appendices to introduction; 1. A Philosophical Review of the Successive Advances of the Human Mind; 2. On Universal History; 3. Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Wealth; Index.