This author of Rameau's Nephew and Jacques the Fatalist workedwith Jean d'Alembert to produce a "Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts".
An economic effect named for this author arose from his description of a spiraling pattern ofconsumption in his essay "Regrets on Parting with my Old Dressing Gown". One of his works endsby noting "He who laughs last, laughs best"; that work's narrator meets the title character in theRegency Cafe, where they discuss the War of the Buffoons and the Enlightenment. This man stoleplot elements from Tristram Shandy for a work whose protagonist believes that all (*) events are"written up above" in a "great scroll". This author of Rameau's Nephew and Jacques the Fatalist workedwith Jean d'Alembert to produce a "Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts, and Crafts". For 10 points,name this chief editor of the Encyclopedie.
An economic effect named for this author arose from his description of a spiraling pattern ofconsumption in his essay "Regrets on Parting with my Old Dressing Gown".
Denis Diderot