The essay investigates the proposition that economic questions are a fit subject for science. This investigation will involve a selective examination of seventeenth-century writings before looking at again selective Enlightenment texts. The essay is deliberately wide ranging, but it aims to pick out the emergence or crystallization of political economy by noting how theorists sought to establish it as a subject matter and in the process develop ways of studying it that aimed to uncover regularities and exhibit generality, systematicity, and precision. Together these supported its pretensions or claims to be a science that would in a Baconian manner be useful and free of the perceived shackles of a moralistic classical disparagement of economic activity.

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走出咖啡馆或政治经济如何伪装成从蒙奇雷蒂安到斯图尔特的科学

这篇文章探讨了经济问题是适合科学的主题这一命题。这项调查将涉及对 17 世纪的著作进行选择性检查，然后再选择性地查看启蒙运动文本。这篇文章的范围很广，但它旨在通过指出理论家如何试图将其确立为一个主题，并在此过程中开发旨在揭示规律和展示普遍性的研究方法，来挑选政治经济学的出现或结晶，系统性和精确性。这些共同支持了它的自命不凡或声称是一门以培根式的方式有用的科学，并且摆脱了道德主义古典贬低经济活动的束缚。