CHARLES RICHARD DE BUTRÉ: AN ECONOMIST IN THE SHADOW OF FRANÇOIS QUESNAY

Loïc Charles and Christine Théré
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Abstract: From 1759 to 1762, François Quesnay regularly appealed to Charles Richard de Butré (1725–1805) when he had to make numerical estimates or perform non-elementary computations (Charles and Théré 2008). Although scarcely mentioned in the secondary literature, Butré was indeed an important collaborator of Quesnay's. The present article gives a detailed account of Butré's contribution to Physiocracy by concentrating on the period from 1766 to 1768, when Quesnay conceived and published his last versions of the Tableau économique . We show that Butré developed a sophisticated economic model. Although his model contains significant deviations from Quesnay's, Butré's intent was to complement rather than criticize it.

Keywords: François Quesnay; Charles Richard de Butré; Physiocratie; History of economic thought Early modern Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-05-11
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Published in Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2016, 38 (2), pp.131-152. ⟨10.1017/S1053837216000055⟩

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DOI: 10.1017/S1053837216000055

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