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"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."""

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Author:   Étienne Bonnot ,  Abbé de Condillac ,  Seelagh Eltis
Publisher:   Liberty Fund Inc
Imprint:   Liberty Fund Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 15.50cm
Weight:   0.738kg
ISBN:  

9780865977020

ISBN 10:   086597702
Pages:   347
Publication Date:   22 February 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface; THE LIFE AND CONTRIBUTION TO ECONOMICS OF THE ABBE DE CONDILLAC, Shelagh Eltis and Walter Eltis; Etienne Bonnot, abbe de Condillac, 17141780; The economics of the abbe 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.

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Reference & Research Book News August 2008

This is a reprint of the translation published by Edward Elgar in 1997. Condillac's theory of economics was initially condemned by the physiocrats because in his utility-based analysis, industry and commerce and not just agriculture contributed to the wealth of France. This first English translation includes a comprehensive account of Condillac's life and contributions, the importance of which were widely recognized after the marginal revolution of the 1870's. Translator and editor Shelagh M. Eltis is a UK-based historian; Walter Eltis is emeritus, Exeter College, Oxford and visiting professor of economics at the U. of Reading, UK. Reference & Research Book News August 2008

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