Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV

Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV
Title Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV PDF eBook
Author Steven L. Kaplan
Publisher Anthem Press
Pages 817
Release 2015-09-15
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 1783084790

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A new edition of Kaplan’s landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on research in all the Parisian depots and more than fifty departmental archives and specialized and municipal libraries, Kaplan’s classic work constitutes a major contribution to the study of the subsistence problem before the French Revolution and the political economy of deregulatory reform. Anthem Press is proud to reissue this path breaking work together with a significant new historiographic companion volume by the author, “The Stakes of Regulation: Perspectives on ‘Bread, Politics and Political Economy’ Forty Years Later.”

Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV

Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV
Title Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV PDF eBook
Author Steven Laurence Kaplan
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 844
Release 2012-12-06
Genre History
ISBN 9401014043

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I Modern times has invented its own brand of Apocalypse. Famine is no longer one of the familiar outriders. The problems of material life, and their political and psychological implications, have changed drastically in the course of the past two hundred years. Perhaps nothing has more profoundly affected our institutions and our attitudes than the creation of a technology of abundance. - Even the old tropes have given way: neither dollars nor calories can measure the distance which separates gagne-pain from gagne-hi/leek. 1 Yet the concerns of this book seem much less remote today than they did when it was conceived in the late sixties. In the past few years we have begun to worry, with a sort of expiatory zeal, about the state· of our environment, the size of our population, the political economy and the morality of the allocation of goods and jobs, and the future of our resources. While computer projections cast a malthusian pall over our world, we have had a bitter, first-hand taste of shortages of all kinds. The sempiternal battle between producers and consumers rages with a new ferocity, as high prices provoke anger on the one side and celebration on the other. Even as famines continue to strike the third world in the thermidor of the green revolution, so we have discovered hunger in our own midst.

Bread, politics and political economy in the reign of Louis XV. 2(1976)

Bread, politics and political economy in the reign of Louis XV. 2(1976)
Title Bread, politics and political economy in the reign of Louis XV. 2(1976) PDF eBook
Author Steven L. Kaplan
Publisher
Pages 6
Release 1976
Genre France
ISBN 9789024718757

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Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV

Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV
Title Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV PDF eBook
Author Steven L. Kaplan
Publisher
Pages 797
Release 1976
Genre France
ISBN

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Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV

Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV
Title Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV PDF eBook
Author Steven L. Kaplan
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2015
Genre Bread
ISBN 9780857285102

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A new edition of Kaplan's landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A. Reinert. Based on comprehensive archival, Kaplan's classic work constitutes a major contribution to the study of the subsistence problem before the French Revolution and the political economy of deregulatory reform.

The Stakes of Regulation

The Stakes of Regulation
Title The Stakes of Regulation PDF eBook
Author Steven L. Kaplan
Publisher Anthem Press
Pages 469
Release 2015-08-15
Genre History
ISBN 1783084766

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Scholars have long regarded ‘Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV’ (1976) as marking an important moment in the study of the social, political and cultural history of eighteenth-century France. ‘The Stakes of Regulation’ is the companion volume to a new edition of this landmark study, revealing how Kaplan’s thinking has evolved in reaction both to the changing intellectual, epistemological, historiographical and socio-political environment, and to the significant scholarship that has been accomplished during the past forty years. Kaplan remains faithful to his original premise: that the subsistence question is at the core of eighteenth century history, and that the issues joined by the struggle over liberalization continue to shape our destiny today through the bristling tension between liberty and equality, and the debate over the necessity, legitimacy and character of regulation.

Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XIV.

Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XIV.
Title Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XIV. PDF eBook
Author Steven L.. Kaplan
Publisher
Pages 796
Release 1976
Genre
ISBN 9789024718740

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