Les leçons de Turgot et de Smith
Cette semaine, le club Turgot publie aux éditions Arnaud Franel,
son 3e livre (158 pages)
dont la rédaction a été coordonnée par Jean-Jacques Pluchart :
This collective book, whose title is borrowed from the two most famous works of Turgot and Smith, was written by the Turgot club, which for 40 years has been organizing the Turgot Prize awarded to Bercy for the best books on economics and finance. It strives to find in contemporary works the spirit that animated, 250 years ago, the founders of economic liberalism, the French Anne-Jacques-Robert Turgot and the Scottish Adam Smith. It brings together 50 original reviews of works published during the years 2024 and 2025 by 80 researchers, entrepreneurs, and managers attentive to economic phenomena and social facts.
The reader of this book will discover that between the end of the 18 th century and the beginning of the 21 st century, “wealth creation systems” have been transformed into “models of growth and decline”, “principles of government” have been replaced by “modes of governance and management”, “laws of nature” have been renamed “environmental standards”, the Encyclopedia of Diderot and d’Alembert has become “big data”, and the Siècle des Lumières has become an alternation of shadows and lights.
Contributors to the writing of the book: Hubert Alcaraz, Philippe Alezard, Florence Anglès, Renzo Borsato, Alain Brunet, Jean-Louis Chambon, Dominique Chesneau, Benoit Frayer, Sophie Friot, Michel Gabet, Claude Georgelet, Freddi Godet Desmarais, Loïc Le Menn, Denis Molho, Jean-Jacques Pluchart (direction of the book), Pona Samnik, Olivier Stephan, Kathleen Wantz O’Rourke.