Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors to the two volumes -- Preface -- 1 Prelude: from scholasticism to the Enlightenment -- 2 Pierre de Boisguilbert and the foundations of laissez-faire -- 3 John Law and the Mississippi System -- 4 Science of trade and "commerce politique -- 5 François Quesnay and Physiocracy -- 6 Turgot, Graslin and sensationist political economy -- 7 Political critiques of political economy -- 8 The spirit of geometry: quantification and formalisation -- 9 Postlude: intellectual exchanges and last developments -- Index
