Ideas and Men: Criticism of the French “Liberal School”
摘要
Throughout his life, Léon Walras fought against what he termed the "clique currently holding the concession for the exploitation of economics", a school that had managed to apply to economic science the formula "exploitationby monopolyMonopolyunder the maskof libertyLiberty". He refers here to the group of economists of the liberal schoolSchool, liberal/orthodox that was formed during the 1840s and largely dominated French economic thought until the end of the Second Empire. This group would benefit from greater tolerance from the political power after the signing of the free tradeFree trade treaty between France and England (January 1860).