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L’entrepreneur dans la pensée économique : l’originalité méconnue de Turgot

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  • Pelletier, Gérard-R.

    (Département d’économique, Université de Sherbrooke)

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This note pretends that because of an error going back at least to Léon Say (1877) and repeated by Schumpeter and contemporary authors, the priority of the 1766 "Reflexions..." of A.R.J. Turgot on the distinction between the capitalist and the entrepreneur is neglected. Some fifty years before Jean-Baptiste Say, Turgot made clear that distinction, which came logically and historically for him from the gradual absenteeism of the class of proprietors during the rise of capitalism. The distinction is found in Reflexion LXX. Cette note remonte jusqu’à Léon Say en 1877 pour déceler une erreur répétée par Schumpeter et des auteurs contemporains qui négligent d’attribuer à A.-R.-J. Turgot la priorité dans la distinction entre capitalistes et entrepreneurs. Quelque cinquante ans avant Jean-Baptiste Say, Turgot avait explicité cette distinction, logiquement et historiquement, en se fondant sur l’absentéisme graduel de la classe des propriétaires dans la montée du capitalisme. La distinction se trouve à l’article LXX des Réflexions.

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  • Pelletier, Gérard-R., 1990. "L’entrepreneur dans la pensée économique : l’originalité méconnue de Turgot," L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 66(2), pages 187-192, juin.
  • Handle: RePEc:ris:actuec:v:66:y:1990:i:2:p:187-192
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