Turgot’s calculations on the effects of indirect taxation

Richard van den Berg and Daniel Russell

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2020, vol. 27, issue 6, 983-1010

Abstract: A newly recovered manuscript contains Turgot’s calculations of the harmful effects of indirect taxes in comparison to the imposition of a direct tax on the freely disposable incomes of landowners. It shows an unexpected side of Turgot, who was thought to have been reluctant to apply mathematics to economic reasoning. His assumptions and mathematical method are explained and compared to Quesnay’s notion of repompement and Du Pont’s Courbes politiques.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2020.1790622

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