Agriculture, Agronomy, and Political Economy: Some Missing Links

Argemí, Lluís

doi:10.1215/00182702-34-2-449

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“…El tercero de los autores señalados, Francisco Vidal i Cabasés, abordó la cuestión del regadío desde una perspectiva más cercana a la «nueva agronomía» (Argemí, 1993;34). Las Conversaciones instructivas en que se trata de fomentar la agricultura por medio del riego de las tierras (1778) tienen como fuentes a autores europeos destacados (Duhamel, Tull), pero también a españoles como Herrera, al tiempo que recurría a los casos de Valencia, Aragón y Granada como escenarios en los que contrastar las virtudes del uso del agua.…”

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Agua, salud, población. Una nueva mirada a la relación entre ciencia y economía política en la Ilustración española

Giner

Insa-Sánchez

2023

CESXVIII

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Este trabajo pretende ofrecer una aproximación algunos de los principales puntos de contacto entre disciplinas científicas y la economía política durante la Ilustración española. El objetivo principal es mostrar nuevos canales a través de los cuales pudieron haberse formulado conocimientos económicos, si bien desde planteamientos que partían desde campos afines a las ciencias de la naturaleza. El primero de estos canales sería la puesta en marcha de iniciativas de regadío, cuyo planteamiento y posterior explotación requerían la aplicación de diversas disciplinas científicas al problema económico que surgía de la necesidad de mejorar la agricultura. El segundo de los canales tiene que ver con la promoción de la salud de la población, un ámbito en el que no solo intervinieron los conocimientos de la propia medicina, sino también los de otras ciencias afines, como la química o la estadística.

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Agua, salud, población. Una nueva mirada a la relación entre ciencia y economía política en la Ilustración española

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2023

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“…Finally, even among individuals belonging to the same society, there are profound natural inequalities. In particular, only a small number of men, who form an elite, are able to access the life of culture 2 .…”

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“…He states that the application of successive doses of work on a given piece of land must continue until the additional yield obtained through the last worker employed is equal, in value, to the salary he receives. Thus he also declares that the income from capital depends on the productiveness of the last applied dose of capital (Mynt 1848, 105;Argemí 2002).…”

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“…See also the work of R.Mauduit, (1928, 92). This author believes that Comte was able to get to know Cournot's Mathematical Principles of the Theory of Wealth (1838), and that he hints precisely at this work when he speaks of 'heavy algebraic phraseology of subordinate imitators', or when he declares: 'Such an aberration simply constitutes, to my eyes, the involuntary testimony of a profound philosophical impotence' (ibid., 56-57) 2. In most individuals, Comte explains, the affective faculties are much more important than the intellectual ones, because the front part of the brain, which is the seat of intelligence, is nothing more than a quarter or a sixth of the cerebral mass (Arbousse-Bastide 1957, 298).…”

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The Classical Political Economy: Criticism and Controversy Around the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Morselli

2019

Theor. Pract. Res. Econom. Fields

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The present work highlights the insufficiency of classical methodology to explain economic phenomena. The classical formulation left the notion of value unspecified, so there is room for the marginalist current, which abandons the classic value-work theory of the and replaces it with a theory of value based on marginal utility. The scenario changes and the attention is no longer paid to the classical social aggregates, but to individuals and economic subjects, passing from objectivity to the subjectivity of individual choices. From the marginalist principles, which still have an important influence today, the neoclassical school is constituted, which sets itself the objective of highlighting the advantages of economic liberalism, already highlighted by classical authors, but through different instruments compared to those used in the past. In this way we will have the opportunity to observe how the study of economics becomes more scientific, general and universal.

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“…Perhaps the simplest is the ratio of the crop to the seed sown. The term produit net (net product) was used in a work of agronomy to refer to the output minus the seed (Argemi 2002, p. 461) 4 . Cantillon refers to this measure, but only as a preliminary step in his argument (1755, p. 71).…”

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The Concept of an Agricultural Surplus, From Petty to Smith

Brewer

2011

J Hist Econ Thought

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Everyone has to eat, so agriculturalists must produce enough to feed themselves and the rest of the population. This statement is trivially obvious but making it explicit mattered to the early development of economic thinking. Many important economic writers of the period (Petty, Cantillon, Hutcheson, Hume, Steuart, Mirabeau, Smith, and others) used a specific notion of agricultural surplus of the form: x men can feed y, where y > x. A series of questions about the relation between agriculture and the rest of the economy naturally follows. Will the surplus be produced? How does it reach those who consume it? What are the “superfluous hands” (in Hume’s terms) to do? This paper points out this neglected theme in early economics.

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Agriculture, Agronomy, and Political Economy: Some Missing Links

Cited by 11 publications

References 21 publications

Agua, salud, población. Una nueva mirada a la relación entre ciencia y economía política en la Ilustración española

Agua, salud, población. Una nueva mirada a la relación entre ciencia y economía política en la Ilustración española

The Classical Political Economy: Criticism and Controversy Around the Mid-Nineteenth Century

The Concept of an Agricultural Surplus, From Petty to Smith

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