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A.-R.-J. Turgot on a General Market: Competition, Price and History

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José M. Menudo () (Department of Economics, Universidad Pablo de Olavide)

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The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the notion of price determination in A.-R.-J. Turgot’s writings. Consideration is given to the evolution of the concept of market during the 18th century. It is argued that Turgot provided a model of multiple exchanges with merchants, called General market, in order to tackle economic problems, as is the market integration, price stability and the hoarding of capital. Further, we demonstrate how a uniform price, which is kept constantly, required that Turgot made use of theoretical tools from other disciplines.

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Paper provided by Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Departamento de Economía in its series Working Papers with number 07.07.

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Length: 26 pages
Date of creation: May 2007
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Keywords: Turgot Equilibrium and Disequilibrium price formation Information and Knowledge.

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B1 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925
D50 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - General
L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search, Learning, and Information

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  1. Brewer, Anthony A, 1987. "Turgot: Founder of Classical Economics," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 54(216), pages 417-28, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Brian J. Loasby, 2001. "Time, knowledge and evolutionary dynamics: why connections matter," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 11(4), pages 393-412. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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