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050 00 $aHB93$b.V375 2012
082 00 $a330.1$223
084 $aHIS010000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aVardi, Liana.
245 14 $aThe physiocrats and the world of the Enlightenment /$cLiana Vardi, University at Buffalo, State University of New York.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2012.
300 $aviii, 315 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 281-308) and index.
505 0 $a1. Art, craft, and court -- 2. The ways of the mind -- 3. The ways of the heart -- 4. A delicate balance -- 5. Representative assemblies -- 6. The journalist -- 7. The education of princes -- 8. Changing the world.
520 $a"The Physiocrats believed that wealth came exclusively from the land, that nature was fecund and man could harness its reproductive forces. Capital investments in agriculture and hard work would create profits that circulated to other sectors and supported all social institutions. Physiocracy, which originated in late eighteenth-century France, is therefore widely considered a forerunner of modern economic theory. The Physiocrats and the World of the Enlightenment places the Physiocrats in context by inscribing economic theory within broader Enlightenment culture. Liana Vardi discusses three theorists - Francois Quesnay; Victor Riquetti, marquis de Mirabeau; and Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours - and shows how their understanding of mental processes, science, politics, and the arts influenced their individual approach to economic writing. The difficulty in explaining the doctrine, combined with the expectation that the public would be persuaded by its arguments, mired physiocracy in endless contradictions. This work offers a framework for understanding physiocratic theory and its complicated relation to modern economics"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aPhysiocrats.
650 0 $aEconomics.
650 0 $aEnlightenment.
650 7 $aHISTORY / Europe / General.$2bisacsh
852 00 $boff,bus$hHB93$i.V375 2012