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Robert F. Hebert, « Fondements et développements de l'économie publique », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.1994.1966
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Robert F. Hébert : The foundations and development of public economics. In 18th-century France, two important analytical traditions in economics developed more or less side by side : on the one hand, political economy was developed by Quesnay and his followers ; on the other, public economics (which began as inquiries into transport economics) was pioneered by engineers who had intellectual ties to the École des Ponts et Chaussées. This article traces the development of the second tradition, which was separated from the first by professional and institutional considerations. This tradition of public economics had a progenitor in Vauban, a theoretical catalyst in Saint-Pierre, a pedagogical entrepreneur in Perronet and a vigorous defender in Mirabeau.