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Are the French still Physiocrats?
Author(s) -
Eltis Walter
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1984.tb00461.x
Subject(s) - agriculture , subject (documents) , economics , economic history , political science , development economics , geography , archaeology , library science , computer science
The influence of economic thinking on policy is a perennial subject of debate among economists. Walter Eltis traces the origins of the Anglo‐French conflict on agricultural prices in the EEC (the Common Agricultural Policy) to the divergent teaching of British and French economists 150 to 200 years ago.