RUELLE
Cahiers pour le rétablissement des finances de la France. Par M. Ruelle, ci-devant chargé des Affaires de France à Bruxelles[Notebooks for the Restoration of France’s Finances. By Mr. Ruelle, Formerly in Charge of French Affairs in Brussels]
s. n.|Brussels 1789|15 x 23.5 cm|Broché
First edition of this important pre-Revolutionary economic pamphlet. (See INED 3994. Stourm 152. Not in Kress, Goldsmith, or Einaudi.)
Our copy is preserved in its original wrappers and plain paper covers.
A marginal waterstain to the left edge of the leaves.
"Ruelle, an advocate of physiocratic economic principles, demonstrates that the burden of taxation ultimately always falls upon landowners. He argues for the necessity of consolidating all taxes into a single direct income tax. Combined with unrestricted freedom of trade, this tax would constitute the only means of restoring the finances of the State. A critique of public borrowing and a defence of property." See...
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