François VERON DE FORBONNAIS
Elemens du commerce
Le Breton • Chez Briasson • David l'aîné|à Leyde [Leiden] • & se trouve à Paris 1754|10 x 17 cm|relié
Second edition statement, with some parts in first edition, published the same year as the first by the same publisher.
Contemporary full speckled blonde calf binding. Smooth spine decorated. Beige morocco title-label and volume label. Minor lack to the title-label of volume I. Surface abrasion along volume I. A brown stain on the lower cover of volume I, and one on the upper cover of volume II. Handsome copy, fresh.
The author's first work of importance, based on articles previously published in L'Encyclopédie on commerce that Diderot had commissioned from him. The work gives a definition of commerce and all its parts (exchange, agriculture, colonies, industries...) with great concern for didacticism and endowed with perfect clarity. The author places himself under the banner of liberalism, but an egalitarian liberalism, and while he was a precursor of the physiocrats, he would distance himself from Quesnay's doctrines. He is the first to emphasize the fundamental connection between industry and agriculture and advocate a fiscal system taxing consumption. Even if his vision of the state remains mercantile, and relatively classical, he brings many new ideas and his writings are filled with contemporary economic facts of primary importance.
Contemporary full speckled blonde calf binding. Smooth spine decorated. Beige morocco title-label and volume label. Minor lack to the title-label of volume I. Surface abrasion along volume I. A brown stain on the lower cover of volume I, and one on the upper cover of volume II. Handsome copy, fresh.
The author's first work of importance, based on articles previously published in L'Encyclopédie on commerce that Diderot had commissioned from him. The work gives a definition of commerce and all its parts (exchange, agriculture, colonies, industries...) with great concern for didacticism and endowed with perfect clarity. The author places himself under the banner of liberalism, but an egalitarian liberalism, and while he was a precursor of the physiocrats, he would distance himself from Quesnay's doctrines. He is the first to emphasize the fundamental connection between industry and agriculture and advocate a fiscal system taxing consumption. Even if his vision of the state remains mercantile, and relatively classical, he brings many new ideas and his writings are filled with contemporary economic facts of primary importance.
€780