Commerce and Government: Considered in Their Mutual Relationship - Rilegato

Condillac, Abbe De; Bonnot, Etienne

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 086597702X ISBN 13: 9780865977020

Casa editrice: Liberty Fund, 2008

Riassunto

This text covers such topics as value, money, agriculture, domestic and foreign trade, war, labor, 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.”

Étienne Bonnot, Abbé de Condillac (1714?1780) was one of eighteenth-century France’s preeminent philosophers of the Enlightenment, who had wide-ranging influence beyond metaphysics and epistemology to political thought and economics. He was a leading advocate in France of the ideas of John Locke, Bishop George Berkeley, and David Hume.

Shelagh Eltis is a historian and graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, U.K.

Walter Eltis is an Emeritus Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Reading, U.K.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Liberty Fund
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 086597702X
• ISBN 13: 9780865977020
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 347