ABSTRACT
Routledge’s collection ‘Studies in the History of Economics’ now contains a new publication on the eighteenth century following those published by Ramon Tortajada and Gilbert Faccarello on Steuart and Boisguilbert. Peter Groenewegen’s Eighteenth-Century Economics is a collection of twentythree articles or essays published between 1968 and 1999. Half of them deal with Turgot and Smith, the other half are devoted to pre-Smithian French or Italian economists including Boisguilbert, Cantillon, Quesnay, Verri or Beccaria. This book must be considered as a lifetime work devoted to the study of the eighteenth-century’s economic thought. One must be grateful to Peter Groenewegen for having translated, published and commented on the works of these French and Italian economists in the AngloSaxon world. One of the chapters in this book insists on the difficulties he encountered while ‘Editing the classics in the Antipodes’ (ch. 10).
