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| Title: | Commerce & Government
: Considered in Their Mutual Relationship |
| Author: | Étienne Bonnot, Abbé de Condillac. Translated by Seelagh Eltis |
| ISBN: | 086597702X : 9780865977020 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 347 |
| Weight: | .738 Kg. |
| Published: | Liberty Fund - February 2008 |
| List Price: | 16.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Domestic trade |
This text covers such topics as value, money, agriculture, domestic and foreign trade, war, labour, interest rates, luxuries, and the various government policies that affect these subjects. The theme that unites these disparate subjects is liberty. As Condillac writes near the end of the work, the means to eradicate all the abuses and injustices of government is "to give trade full, complete and permanent freedom". In their preface to the 1997 edition, Shelagh and Walter Eltis wrote, "English language readers . . . will find . . . that the case for competitive market economics has rarely been presented more powerfully."
Preface; THE LIFE AND CONTRIBUTION TO ECONOMICS OF THE ABBÉ DE CONDILLAC, Shelagh Eltis and Walter Eltis; Étienne Bonnot, abbé de Condillac, 1714–1780; The economics of the abbé de Condillac; The editions of Commerce and Government; ANNEX: A note on French currency, monetary values, and weights and measures; COMMERCE AND GOVERNMENT: CONSIDERED IN THEIR MUTUAL RELATIONSHIP, Translated by Shelagh Eltis; Table of the chapters contained in this volume; The aim of this work; First Part Elementary propositions on commerce, determined according to the assumptions or principles of Economic Science; Second Part Commerce and government considered in relation to each other following some assumptions; Bibliography; Index.
