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Les Idéologues (Hardcover)
François Joseph Picavet, Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy
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R1,093
Discovery Miles 10 930
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quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
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keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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"A Treatise on Political Economy" by Antonie Louis Claude Destutt
de Tracy (1754-1836) is a foundational text of nineteenth-century,
free-market economic thought and remains one of the classics of
nineteenth-century French economic liberalism. Destutt de Tracy was
one of the founders of the classical liberal republican group known
as the Ideologues, which included Benjamin Constant, Jean-Baptiste
Say, Marquis de Condorcet, and Madame de Stael. In this volume,
Destutt de Tracy provides one of the clearest statements of the
economic principles of the Ideologues. Breaking with the
physiocratic orthodoxy of the eighteenth century, Destutt de Tracy
denies that land is the source of all productive labour and focuses
his attention upon manufacturing and manufacturers as the producers
of utility and, therefore, of value and of wealth. Placing the
entrepreneur at the centre of his view of economic activity, he
argues against luxurious consumption of the idle rich and
recommends a market economy with low taxation and minimum state
intervention. Destutt de Tracy sent the text of "A Treatise on
Political Economy" to Thomas Jefferson in hopes of securing its
translation in the United States. It was met with enthusiastic
approval. Jefferson wrote to the publisher, "The merit of this work
will, I hope, place it in the hands of every reader in our
country".
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Les Idéologues (Paperback)
François Joseph Picavet, Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy
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R892
Discovery Miles 8 920
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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