Turgot on Progress, Sociology and Economics: A Philosophical Review of the Successive Advances of the Human Mind on Universal History Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Wealth

by Ronald L. Meek

Overview

A. R. J. Turgot (1727–81), one of the greatest thinkers of the century of the Enlightenment, is known to political historians as a pioneer of the doctrine of universal progress, which he first put forward when a student at the Sorbonne in a lecture on The Successive Advances of the Human Mind. He is also well known to economists as the author of Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Wealth, in which he anticipated - and in some respects surpassed - the theoretical system of classical political economy. In this volume, translations of these two works are printed together with a lesser-known work entitled On Universal History, which should be of great interest to sociologists. Professor Meek has prefaced his own translations of the three texts with an introduction in which he analyses the interesting interrelationship between Turgot's political, economic and sociological theories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521153348
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/10/2010
Series:	Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	194
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.43(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Appendices to introduction; 1. A Philosophical Review of the Successive Advances of the Human Mind; 2. On Universal History; 3. Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Wealth; Index.