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Early Aspects of Equilibrium A number of French authors from Boisguilbert onward have attributed a central role to the notion of equilibrium in analyzing the theoretical interdependence of economic factors. This brief study draws attention to the specific role played in the development of this pivotal concept by certain "engineers" trained in mathematical and physical disciplines. In the eighteenth century, other economists (Forbonnais, Turgot) reached similar conclusions through different approaches, to be explored later. That the economic work of the "engineers" should have been repeatedly misunderstood in France raises a problem pertaining to the sociology of knowledge- a problem that should be analyzed along the lines of David Bloot's...
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