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Quesnay鈥檚 'Tableau E虂conomique' and the problem of rent

16 November 2020, 4:00 pm鈥5:30 pm

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Join us for this talk as part of the IIPP Seminar Series, as D鈥橫aris Coffman (Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management) discusses research on Franc抬ois Quesnay鈥檚 'Tableau E虂conomique'.

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Franc抬ois Quesnay鈥檚 Tableau E虂conomique, which dates from the late 1750s, is an attempt to model economic interdependencies between the agricultural, manufacturing, and rentier classes in order to inform debates about optimal taxation. This discourse mirrored a similar set of debates raging in the United Kingdom in the eighteenth century about the economic incidence of excise taxation on beer and ale, which had pitted the landowners against merchants and manufacturers. Although participants in these debates in Britain and France corresponded with each other, their competing analyses were informed by very different political regimes and by different fundamental assumptions about the basis, scope and limits of state power. They also reflected fundamentally different approaches to the problem of rent. Some 260 years later, these two traditions suggest two very different approaches to taxation and to the question of the role of the state in the modern economy.听

Background material linked to this seminar

Coffman, D.听(2020). (including an English translation of Luigi Pasinetti鈥檚 鈥楾he Tableau E虂conomique and the Modern Economy鈥). Structural Change and Economic Dynamics.

Cardinale, I. and Coffman, D.听(2014). Economic interdependencies and political conflict: The political economy of taxation in eighteenth century Britain. Economia politica, 31(3), pp.277-300.

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About the Speaker

D鈥橫aris Coffman

Professor at Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management

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Professor D鈥橫aris Coffman is the Director (Head of Department) of BSCPM. She is a Professor in Economics and Finance of the Built Environment. She joined 香港六合彩中特网 in 2014 from Newnham College of the University of Cambridge. She is a Managing Editor of Elsevier鈥檚 Structural Change and Economic Dynamics and on the editorial boards of The Journal of Cleaner Production, Economia Politica, and the Chinese Journal of Population, Resources and Environment. She is a Fellow of Goodenough College. In 2020-21, she is a Visiting Professor at the University of Milan. She is also a Guest Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology and a Visiting Professor of Renmin University of China. Before 香港六合彩中特网, she spent six years as a fellow of Newnham College where started the Centre for Financial History. Professor Coffman has over 90 publications across fields as diverse as infrastructure economics, climate change economics, climate finance, economic and financial history, and the history of economic thought. Twitter:听@ddcoffman