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Charles Richard De Butré: An Economist In The Shadow Of François Quesnay

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  • Loïc Charles

    (INED - Institut national d'études démographiques, LED - Laboratoire d'Economie Dionysien - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis)

  • Christine Théré

    (INED - Institut national d'études démographiques)

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.

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  • Loïc Charles & Christine Théré, 2016. "Charles Richard De Butré: An Economist In The Shadow Of François Quesnay," Post-Print halshs-04291365, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-04291365
    DOI: 10.1017/S1053837216000055
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