Pierre de Boisguilbert (1646-1714)
Hazel Van Dyke Roberts, Boisguilbert: economist of the reign of Louis XIV, New York, Columbia University Press, 1935
“Boisguilbert: An Early French Economist“, 1873, Westminster Review
Vauban (1633-1707)
A Project for a Royal Tythe, or General Tax, which by suppressing all the ancient funds and later projects for raising the public revenues, and for ever abolishing all exemptions, unequal assessments, and all rigours and oppressive distraining of people, will furnish the government a fixt and certain revenue, sufficient for all its exigencies and occasions, without oppressing the subjects, London, 1708 (see also the 1710 edition)
Richard Cantillon (1680-1734)
Essai on the nature of commerce in general, translation Henry Higgs, 1959 ; translation Chantal Saucier, 2010
Introduction by Friedrich A. Hayek for Hella Hayek’s 1931 German edition of Richard Cantillon’s Essai.
Antoin Murphy, “Richard Cantillon: banker and economist”, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Volume 7, Number 2 (1985)
Mark Thornton, “Cantillon and the Invisible Hand”, 2009, Quaterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Marquis d’Argenson (1694-1757)
Letter to the marquis Belloni (on the laissez-faire), Journal oeconomique (1751), translated in english for the Select Essays on Commerce, Agriculture, Mines, Fisheries, and Other Useful Subjects (London, 1754), pp.328-335
Journal and memoirs of the Marquis d’Argenson published from the autograph MSS. in the library of the Louvre by E.J.B. Rathery; with an introd. by C.A. Sainte-Beuve. Translated by Katharine P. Wormele. Volume 1, Volume 2
Vincent de Gournay (1712-1759)
Turgot, In Praise of Gournay (1759), in The Turgot collection
François Quesnay (1694-1774) and Physiocracy
Henry Higgs, The Physiocrats: Six Lectures on the French économistes of the 18th Century, Macmillan, 1897
Quesnay, General Maxims for the Economic Government of an Agricultural Kingdom
— Despotism in China, in Maverick, China, A model for Europe, volume 2
Turgot (1727-1781)
The Turgot collection, edited by the Mises Institute
Reflexions on the formation and distribution of riches
Condorcet, Life of M. Turgot
Léon Say, Turgot
Murray Rothbard, “The brillance of Turgot”, in Austrian perspective on the history of economic thought https://mises.org/library/brilliance-turgot
Condillac (1715-1780)
Commerce and government considered in their mutual relationship
Jean-Baptiste Say
A treatise on political economy
Catechism of political economy
Destutt de Tracy
A treatise on political economy
A commentary and review of Montesquieu’s Spirit of Laws
Benjamin Constant and the Groupe de Coppet
Principles of politics applicable to all governments
The liberty of ancients compared with that of moderns
Gilbert Guillaumin (editor)
Frédéric Bastiat
What is Seen and What is Not Seen
Gustave de Molinari
The Production of Security. New York: Center for Libertarian Studies, 1977.
Yves Guyot
Where and Why Public Ownership has Failed
Causes and consequences of war
