Population and economic sciences in the 18th-20th centuries: institutions and theoretical frameworks

This project of research on the history of demographic and economic knowledge aims to restore and contextualize all forms of scholarly knowledge and practices. The team's works are characterized by two challenges. On the one hand, to question the nature of demographic knowledge through the study of its relations with other human and social sciences over time. Secondly, to analyze the historical development of the main concepts and tools of the population sciences. The work as a whole is thus oriented towards a history of the population sciences and their interactions with other related fields, covering the Enlightenment and the early 19th century (with the rise of political economy, probabilities and statistics), then the mid-19th century (when the idea of demography took shape), and finally the early 20th century (when the discipline consolidated) and the following decades (when new forms of dialogue with the human and social sciences were established).