1615年，他出版了一本非常有價(jià)值的小冊(cè)子，就是著名的《獻(xiàn)給國(guó)王和王后的政治經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)》。這本書中，蒙克萊田是第一次使用了“政治經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)”這個(gè)名詞。但這里的“政治”與我們現(xiàn)在一般使用的“政治”概念不同，它是國(guó)家范圍或社會(huì)范圍的意思�！罢�治經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)”就是指所研究的是國(guó)家范圍和社會(huì)范圍的經(jīng)濟(jì)問(wèn)題，突破了以往研究社會(huì)經(jīng)濟(jì)問(wèn)題只局限于研究家庭經(jīng)濟(jì)或莊園經(jīng)濟(jì)，或只作為某一學(xué)說(shuō)的組成部分的格局。

　　ANTOINE DE MONTCHRETIEN
　　MONTCHRETIEN, ANTOINE DE (1575 or 1576-1621), French dramatist and economist, son of an apothecary at Falaise named Mauchrestien, was born about 1576. In one of his numerous duels he had the misfortune to kill his opponent. He consequently took refuge in England, but through the influence of James I., to whom he dedicated his tragedy, LEcossaise, he was allowed to return to France, and established himself at Auxonne-sur-Loire, where he set up a steel foundry. In 1621 he abandoned this enterprise to serve on the Huguenot side in the civil wars. He raised troops in Maine and Lower Normandy, but was killed in a skirmish near Tourailles on the 8th of October 1621. There is no evidence that he shared the religious opinions of the party for which he fought, and in any case he belonged to the moderate party rallied round Henry IV. In 1615 he published a valuable Trait de lconomie politique, based chiefly on the works of Jean Bodin. He had the good fortune to write before the pruning processes of Vaugelas and Balzac had been applied to the language, and M. Lanson praises him as one of the best prose-writers of his time.
　　His dramas are Sophonisbe (1596), afterwards remodelled as La Carte ginoise; LEcossaise, Les Lacnes, David, Aman (in i6oI); Hector (1604). As plays they have little technical merit, but they contain passages of great lyrical beauty. In LEcossaise Elizabeth first pardons Mary Queen of Scots, and no explanation is given of the change that leads to her execution. Aman has been compared not too unfavourably with Esther, and the hatred of Haman for Mordecai is expressed with more vigour than in Racines play. All Montchrtiens heroes face death without fear. M. Petit de Julleville finds the characteristic note of his plays in the same cult of heroism which was later to inspire the plays of Corneille. Poet, economist, ironmaster, and soldier, Montchrtien represents the many-sided activity of a time before literature had become a profession, and before its province had been restricted in France to polite topics.
　　The tragedies were edited in 1901 by M. Petit de Julleville with notice and commentary; the Trait de lconomie politique in 1889 by Th. Funck Brentano, whose estimate of Montchrtien is severely criticized by W. I. Ashley in the Rug. Hist. Rev. (Oct. 1891). See also Emile Faguet, La Tragdie au XVI siivle, ch. xi. (1883); G. Lansoo, Revue des deux mondes (Sept. 1891).