Who among the following wrote the famous text ‘A Discourse on Political Economy’?
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Rousseau
Adam Smith
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UPSC NDA-2 – 2021
‘A Discourse on Political Economy’ (Discours sur l’économie politique) is an article written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau for the Encyclopédie, published in 1755. In this work, Rousseau distinguishes between domestic economy and political economy and discusses the concept of the general will in the context of the state.