Charles Dunoyer
Barthélemy Charles Dunoyer (born May 20, 1786 in Carennac ( Département Lot ), † December 4, 1862 in Paris ) was an important French economist . He was considered a free trader and a Manchester liberal .
Life
Dunoyer was a great-nephew of Jean-Jacques Rousseau . In 1814 he founded the newspaper Le Censeur in association with Br. Charles Comte , which upheld the principles of 1789, persecuted for their liberalism, took on the title La Collection the following year and appeared until 1819. After the July Revolution he became Prefect of the Somme Department , member of the institute, Councilor of State in 1838 and administrator of the Royal Library in 1839, but had to withdraw into private life after the coup d'état of December 2, 1851 and died on December 4, 1862.
Dunoyer was a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
Economic teaching
He was a radical proponent of laissez-faire . For him, the concept of freedom was the linchpin of science, the yardstick for everything and anything down to the smallest detail, which gave his writings a rigorous cohesion. He understood it to mean not only the removal of all external barriers to economic life, but also the conquering of nature and the ignorance and economic incompetence of people. For him, freedom was the historically progressive result of technical and economic progress . He concludes his history with an idealized description of the régime industriel , which offers the best conditions for the free development of all productive forces. In his rejection of state intervention , he goes further than the other classical economists.
Following on from Jean-Baptiste Say's theory of intangible goods , he provides a classification of trades and arts, which he deals with one after the other. Compared to Adam Smith and Say, he has expanded the range of economically relevant needs almost limitlessly. Referring to Adam Smith, he advocated the thesis that work alone is the "creative force of all usefulness".
As for method, he believed, like many other economists, to proceed inductively , although he deduced from preconceived ideas; it represents a step backwards compared to Say and Rossi.
Dunoyer was also an advocate of the minimal state ; He never wanted to abolish the state, in contrast to Gustave de Molinari , who wanted to privatize police tasks himself and accused the Dunoyer of the "illusion of logic".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Raymund de Waha: The national economy in France. Ferdinand Enke: Stuttgart 1910. pp. 20-25.
Fonts
- Réponse à quelques pamphlets contre la constitution , 1814
- Lettre à un électeur de département , 1822
- You droit de pétition à l'occasion des élections , 1824
- L'Industrie et la morale considérées dans leurs rapports avec la liberté , 1825
- Nouveau Traité d'économie sociale , 1830
- Esprit et méthodes comparés de l'Angleterre et de la France dans les entreprises des travaux publics et en particulier des chemins de fer , 1840
- Des objections qu'on a soulevées dans ces derniers temps contre le régime de la concurrence , 1841
- De la liberté d'enseignement , 1844
- De la liberté du travail, ou simple exposé des conditions dans lesquelles les force humaines s'exercent avec le plus de puissance , 1845
- Report à la suite d'informations prises en Angleterre , 1855
- Report fait au nom de la section de morale sur le concours concernant les rapports de la morale avec l'économie politique , 1860
- Le Second Empire et une nouvelle restauration , 1864
- Œuvres de Dunoyer, revues sur les manuscrits de l'auteur , 1870
literature
- Edmund Villey: L'Œuvre économique de Charles Dunoyer, Paris 1889.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dunoyer, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dunoyer, Barthélemy Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French economist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1786 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carennac , Lot department |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 4, 1862 |
| Place of death | Paris |