CONTENTS

Articles

Xavier Bradley

Inflation and Unemployment. The Bernard Schmitt’s analysis    15

Richard Sobel

The tension between « structural moment »
and « hermeneutic » moment in the Institutionalist Political Economy. Paul Ricœur and the “French Heterodox Touch”   41

CONFERENCE

LUXURY AND HAPPINESS IN FRANCE
AND IN ITALY IN THE XVIIIth and XIXth CENTURIES

Manuela Albertone et Cecilia Carnino

Introduction    71

Nadège Sougy

“À chacun selon son rang”. Economic thought
and market pratices, in eighteenth century    79

André Tiran

The luxury’s spectre    99

Manuela Albertone

Luxury and consommation in physiocracy.

Quesnay, Mirabeau & Baudeau   129

Cecilia Carnino

From “insane and sterile luxury” to extolling “mediocrity”.
Economic analysis and political language in Napoles
in the second part of the eighteenth century   153

Carlo Borghero

The “philosophers” in the apalogetic prism.
The luxury refusal “from reason and experience” in Gerdil   177

Ludovic Frobert

“Come to the new world, where all is luxury,
splendour, beauty, love and in unfathomable harmony”.
A note on luxury, as viewed by Fourier and the Fourierists   197

BOOKS REVIEW

Michel Herland

Calcul et morale. Coûts de l’esclavage et valeur de l’émancipation
(xviiie-xixe siècle). Caroline Oudin Bastide and Philippe Steiner   221

Abstracts   229

Authors’s professional addresses   235