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.

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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The Economic Turn

The Economic Turn
Title The Economic Turn PDF eBook
Author Steven Kaplan
Publisher Anthem Press
Pages 794
Release 2019-01-16
Genre History
ISBN 1783088567

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The mid-eighteenth century witnessed what might be dubbed an economic turn that resolutely changed the trajectory of world history. The discipline of economics itself emerged amidst this turn, and it is frequently traced back to the work of François Quesnay and his school of Physiocracy. Though lionized by the subsequent historiography of economics, the theoretical postulates and policy consequences of Physiocracy were disastrous at the time, resulting in a veritable subsistence trauma in France. This galvanized relentless and diverse critiques of the doctrine not only in France but also throughout the European world that have, hitherto, been largely neglected by scholars. Though Physiocracy was an integral part of the economic turn, it was rapidly overcome, both theoretically and practically, with durable and important consequences for the history of political economy. The Economic Turn brings together some of the leading historians of that moment to fundamentally recast our understanding of the origins and diverse natures of political economy in the Enlightenment.