The Gimon Conference on French Political Economy, 1650-1848

Conference begins in the Bender Room, Green Library.
Coffee and tea will be available throughout the day.

Welcoming remarks:
    Keith Michael Baker, Director, France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

    Michael A. Keller, University Librarian

    Jean-Paul Gimon, Flora Family Foundation

    “The Nature of the Gimon Collection”
Jean-Marie Apostolidès (Stanford University)

    “Interests, Sensationalism, Science of the Legislator: French Philosophie économique, 1695-1803”
Gilbert Faccarello (University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas and PHARE, CNRS, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Philippe Steiner (Université de Paris IX-Dauphine)
    Chair: Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University

Lunch break

Short welcome by Dean Sharon Long

Panel I: Modes of Description
    Chair: Carolyn Lougee-Chappell, Stanford University

Robert Scafe (Stanford University)
    “The Measure of Greatness: Population, Wealth, and War in the Political Thought of the Marshall Vauban”

J.B. Shank (University of Minnesota)
    “The Abbé de Saint-Pierre and the Emergence of the 'Quantifying Spirit' in French Enlightenment Thought.”

Liana Vardi (State University of New York – Buffalo)
    “Physiocracy's Scientific Fallacies”

Panel II: Commerce and Virtue
    Chair: Keith M. Baker, Stanford University

Catherine Larrère (Université de Bordeaux III)
    “Montesquieu’s paradoxical economics”

Paul Cheney (University of Chicago)
    “Montesquieu’s Science of Commerce”

John Shovlin (Hobart and William Smith College)
    “Luxury, ‘Republicanism,’ and French political economy in the era of the Seven Years War”

Panel III: The Politics and Economics of the Colonies
    Chair: JP Daughton, Stanford University

Malick Ghachem (US Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit)
    “The Age of the Code Noir in French Political Economy, 1685-1848”

Emma Rothschild (King’s College, Cambridge University)
    “Turgot and 'The Canaille des Colonies'”

José Luís Cardoso (Technical University of Lisbon)
    Isaac de Pinto (1717-1787) and the economic debates of the French Enlightenment

Presentation of catalogue and collection.

Lunch break

Panel IV: Commerce, Credit, Public Opinion
    Chair: Carla Hesse, UC Berkeley

Amalia Kessler (Stanford University Law School)
    “A ‘Question of Name’: Merchant-Court Jurisdiction and the Origins of the Noblesse Commerçante”

Antoin Murphy (Trinity College, Dublin)
    “Law and Turgot: The Importance of Money”

Loïc Charles (Université de Paris II, INED)
    “French political economy and the making of public opinion as a political concept (1750-1785)”

Panel V: Ancients and Moderns
    Chair: David Bates, UC Berkeley

Richard Whatmore (University of Sussex) (represented by Keith Baker)
    “Ancients versus Moderns? The Politics of Political Economy in France from Rousseau to Constant”

Pierre Force (Columbia University)
    “From amour-propre to égoïsme: the French translations of The Wealth of Nations”

Gareth Stedman-Jones (King’s College, Cambridge University)
    “Saint Simon and the liberal origins of the socialist critique of Political Economy”

Panel VI: Utopian socialism
    Chair: Maria Riasanovsky, Stanford University

Jonathan Beecher (University of California, Santa Cruz)
    “A Riddle and a Reader: Olinde Rodrigues and Charles Fourier’s Théorie des quatre mouvements”

Philippe Régnier (CNRS, Lyon)
    “Pour une nouvelle approche de l’économie saint-simonienne”

Michèle Riot-Sarcey (EHESS)
    “Utopie de l’économie, réalité de la politique”

Lunch break

Panel VII: 1848
    Chair: Jonathan Beecher, UC Santa Cruz

Thomas Bouchet (Université de Bourgogne)
    “’Une formule équivoque et périlleuse’? The Right to Work, the Assembly of 1848 and the economists”

Monique Canto-Sperber (EHESS)
    “Proudhon: The First Liberal Socialist?”