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Commerce, culture, and liberty : readings on capitalism before Adam Smith / edited by Henry C. Clark.

Other author/creatorClark, Henry C.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoIndianapolis, IN : Liberty Fund, ©2003.
Descriptionxxiii, 680 pages ; 24 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Conceptions for a tree trade (1652) / William Walwyn -- Political maxims of the state of Holland (1662) / Pieter de la Court -- A new discourse of trade (1668) / Josiah Child -- Discourses upon trade (1690) -- Second discourse on the affairs of Scotland (1697) / Andrew Fletcher -- The Spectator (1711-1712) / Richard Steele -- "General idea of the new system of finances" (1720) / John Law -- Cato's letters (1721) / John Trenchard -- The fable of the bees (1723) / Bernard Mandeville -- An enquiry whether a general practice of virtue tends to the wealth or poverty, benefit or disadvantage of a people (1725) / George Blewhitt -- The complete English tradesman (1727) / Daniel Defoe -- Plan for the improvement of commerce (1732?) / Charles Irénée Castel de Saint Pierre -- A political essay upon commerce (1734) / Jean-François Melon -- "The worldling" (1736) ; "The man of the world" (1738) ; "On commerce and luxury" (1738) / Voltaire -- Spectacle of nature (1746) / Noël-Antoine Pluche -- Spirit of the laws (1748) / Montesquieu -- On money (1751) / Ferdinando Galiani -- "An enquiry into the causes of late increase of robbers" (1751) / Henry Fielding --
Contents "Of refinement in the arts" (1752) / David Hume -- "Mémoire" / Jacques-Claude-Marie-Vincent de Gournay (1753) -- "Luxury, commerce, and the arts" (1754) / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- A view of the manner in which trade and civil liberty support each other (1756) / William Hazeland -- The commercial nobility (1756) / Gabriel François Coyer -- An estimate of the manners and principles of the times (1757) / John Brown -- "In praise of Gournay" (1759) / Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot -- "Luxury" (1764) / Jean-François Saint-Lambert -- A view of the progress of society in Europe (1766) / William Robertson -- Reflections on the formation and the distribution of wealth (1766) / Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot -- On the origin nd progress of a new science (1768) / Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours -- Dialogues on the grain trade (1769) / Ferdinando Galiani -- "A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies" (1770) / Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal -- On the origin of the distinction of ranks / John Millar (1771) -- Commerce and government considered in their mutual relationship (1776) / Étienne Bonnot de Condillac.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002043439
ISBN0865973784 (alk. paper)
ISBN0865973792 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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