Note 2 — PREFACE
R. (Robert) Richards translation
In an article on the teaching of the history of economic doctrines (Revue de l’Enseignement, March 15, 1900) M. Deschamps declares that it is unpardonable that we should be unable to make better use of the marvellous economic teachings of which both ancient and mediæval history are full, but he adds that “as far as the history of the science is concerned there is no need to go farther back than the Physiocrats.”