Boisguilbert Economist of the Reign of Louis XIV / / Hazel Van Dyke Roberts.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Roberts, Hazel Van Dyke,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1935]; ©1935
• Year of Publication: 1935
• Language: English
• Series: Faculty of Political Science, Columbia University
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Introduction: Economic Conditions under Louis XIV --; I. The Time Produces the Man --; II. Schoolmaster to the Controller General --; III. Defeat --; IV. Writings and Style --; V. The Taille --; VI. Affaires extraordinaires; The Aides and Duanes --; VII. The Political Situation; On Colbert --; VIII. Boisguilbert’s Proposals for Reform --; IX. Social Philosophy: A Precursor of the Socialists --; X. Theory of Economic Fluctuation --; XI. On Money and Credit --; XII. On Value and Price --; XIII. On the Rent of Land --; XIV. The Relation of Boisguilbert’s Concept of Economic Equilibrium to Static Theory --; XV. Laissez Faire --; XVI. The Prototype of The Wealth of Nations --; XVII. The Prototype of The Wealth of Nations: External Evidence --; Appendix: Criticism of Oncken’s History of the Origin of the Maxim “Laissez Faire” --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231879033; 9783110442489
• DOI: 10.7312/robe90496
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hazel Van Dyke Roberts.

An "appreciative exposition" on the writings of Boisguilbert, with special emphasis on his descriptions of trade restraints and their effects on the economy in seventh-century France. The author also compares these descriptions with the origin of the theory of laissez faire and other modern economic thought.