DUNOYER, Charles.

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L'industrie et la morale considerées dans leurs rapports avec la liberté. First edition of this strong defence of free-trade economics, by "one of the great economists of the 19th century" (Palgrave). Dunoyer's work is also recognised as an important text in sociology, anticipating Spencer's conception of society as an organism.L'industrie is based on the lectures given by Dunoyer (1762-1862) at the Athenaeum Institution in Paris: it is among his earliest economic works."In anticipation of Spencer, Dunoyer here developed the idea that society was an organism, in which it fell to the lot of a congeries of institutions and individuals to perform specific functions. The function of government was the preservation of order, and to this role he assigned vital importance" (ESS).

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