Charles Dunoyer

Barthélemy Charles Dunoyer ( born May 20, 1786 in Carennac (Lot), † December 4, 1862 in Paris ) was an important economist of France. He was regarded as a free-trader and Manchester Liberal.

Life

Dunoyer was a great-nephew of Jean -Jacques Rousseau. He founded in 1814 in association with Fr Charles Comte, the newspaper Le Censeur, which represented the principles of 1789, persecuted for their liberality, in the following year the title La Collection assumed and so appeared until 1819. After the July Revolution, he was prefect of the department of the Somme, a member of the Institute, Council of State in 1838 and 1839 managers of the royal library, but had to after the coup d'etat of December 2, 1851 to retire into private life, and died 1862.

Dunoyer was a member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.

Economic theory

He was a radical proponent of laissez - faire. The concept of freedom was the focal point of science, a benchmark for all and everything to the smallest detail what his writings gave a rigorous unity for him. He meant not only the elimination of all external barriers of economic life, but also defeating nature and the ignorance and the inability of the economic man. Freedom was the historically progressive result of technical and economic progress for him. His portrayal of history, it acts by an idealized description of the industrial régime, which offers the best conditions for the free development of all productive forces. In its rejection of state intervention shall proceed further than the other classical economists.

Following the theory of intangible assets of Jean- Baptiste Say, it provides a classification of trades and arts, which he treating them one by one. In comparison to Adam Smith and Say he has the circle of economically relevant needs expanded almost limitless. Going back to Adam Smith, he defended the thesis that working alone the " creative power of all Brauchbarkeiten " is.

As for the method, he believed, like many other economists proceed inductively, though he deduced from preconceived ideas; she juxtaposes Say and Rossi represents a step backwards

Dunoyer was also proponents of the minimal state; He wanted to abolish the state never, Gustave de Molinari, in contrast to that himself wanted to privatize police tasks and the Dunoyer the " illusion of logic " accused.