Boisguilbert Economist of the Reign of Louis XIV / / 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 moder...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1935] ©1935 |
| Year of Publication: | 1935 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Faculty of Political Science, Columbia University
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (380 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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