François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais

François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais (1722–1800) was a French political economist and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.[1][2]

Portrait of François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais painted by Maurice Quentin de La Tour

Life

François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais was born in Le Mans and educated in Paris. After working for his father's textile business, he settled in Paris and became inspector-general of the French coinage in 1752.[3]

He edited the Journal de l’agriculture, du commerce et des finances in the 1760s, and would help draw up Le Mans' noble Cahier de Doleances in 1789.

Works
Elemens du commerce, 1754
  • Considérations sur les finances d'Espagne, 1753
  • Elémens du commerce, 1754
  • Questions sur le commerce des françois au Levant, 1755
  • Essai sur l'admission des navires neutres dans nos colonies, 1756
  • Recherches et considérations sur les finances de France depuis 1595 jusqu'en 1721, 1758
  • Principes et observations oeconomiques, 1767

References
  1. Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs des dix-sept volumes de « discours » de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie. 1989, Volume 7, Numéro 7, p. 141
  2. Berg, Richard van den (2019-11-02). "Circular reasoning. Forbonnais and the intricate history of circular flow analysis in the 1750s". The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. 26 (6): 1107–1152. doi:10.1080/09672567.2019.1635180. ISSN 0967-2567. S2CID 219644629.
  3. The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought, ed. Mark Goldie and Robert Wokler, Cambridge University Press, 2006, p.735


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