1. See Nicos E. Devletoglou. 1963. “Montesquieu and the Wealth of Nations.” Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science 29 (1); Devletoglou. 1969. “The Economic Philosophy of Montesquieu.” Kyklos: Internationale Zeitschrift 22 (3): 530–541;
2. CatherineLarrère. 2005. Montesquieu, oeuvre ouverte 1748–1755 actes du colloque de Bordeaux, 6–8 décembre 2001, Bordeaux, bibliothèque municipale. Napoli: Liguori;
3. Blancheton, B. 2005. “Les faux bilans de la Banque de France dans les années 1920.” In L’enterprise, le chiffre et le droit, eds. J. G. Degos and S. Trébucq. Bordeaux: Université Montesquieu;
4. and Joelle Grospelier. 2005. “What Could Have Prompted Keynes to Call Montesquieu ‘The Real Equivalent of Adam Smith, the Greatest of French Economists?’” Student Economic Review 19: 3–15. < http://www.tcd.ie /Economics/SER/pasti.php?y=05 >. Of these, Devletoglou’s two articles are the most helpful in terms of understanding Montesquieuean economics in isolation (i.e., from his political, social, and moral writings). Devletoglou is particularly important because he provides a readable and detailed summary of Montesquieu’s views on agriculture, industry, enterprise, saving, money, inflation, interest, international trade, and population. He also identifies six French works to consult, the “only studies that we have of Montesquieu’s significance as an economist.” These include Pascal Duprat’s “Les Idées Économiques de Montesquieu” (1870); Joseph Oczapowski, “Montesquieu économiste” (1891); Tournyol du Clos, “Les Idées Financières de Montesquieu” (1912); C. de la Taille-Lolainville, Les Idées économiques et financières de Montesquieu; and Alain Cotta, “Le Développement Économique dans la Pensée de C.S. de Montesquieu.” Devletoglou returns to these themes and greatly expands on them in “The Economic Philosophy of Montesquieu.”
5. Albert O. Hirschman. 1977. The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 3. (This will be designated as PAI.)