Mably abbot. Moralist, historian and economist French. Brother of Condillac, it was an adversary of the physiocrats, of which it denounced the “legal despotism” (Doubts suggested to the philosophers and to the economists on the natural and essential order of the political companies, 1768).
Reformist, it denounced the private property as causes injustice and of idleness, the personal interest like base of the economic activity (Observations on the French history, 1765; Legislation or Principle of the laws, 1776).