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Bureaucracy: The Making of a Buzzword

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This article offers a revision of the history of Vincent de Gournay's neologism "bureaucracy". The author shows that it was designed as a polemical tool against a tendency to multiply customs, tax-collecting and controlling bureaus, which "strangled commerce" in France. The origin of the term had more to do with the pre-physiocratic theory of liberal economy than with political philosophy. More than just a pun, it emerged in the wake of a long tradition of anti-office discourse and formed part of a new rhetorical strategy aimed at legitimizing the merchant estate, which suffered from a lack of prestige in France.

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halshs-04193076, version 1 (04-10-2023)

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Anna Joukovskaïa. Bureaucracy: The Making of a Buzzword. Journal of the History of Ideas, 2023, 84 (4), pp.685-710. ⟨halshs-04193076⟩

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