Les moyens d'arreter la misere publique et d'acquitter les dettes des etats.

SCHLETTWEIN, Johann August (1731-1802)

Verlag: Carolsrouhe [Paris], Michel Macklot 1772

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. Small 8vo. 96p. With engraved allegorical vignette on pages 3 and 5, and tail piece on page 6. Uncut in contemp. decorated boards. First leaves a bit yellowed, stain in margin of 2 or 3 leaves. An old hand added his(?) name to the first paste down, and used the margins of the title, verso and page 3 to repeat the author's name and the title etc. Still an unsophisticated good copy. First (only) edition. Schlettwein was the major representative of physiocracy in Germany. He had studied 'cameralistic sciences' in Jena and initially held orthodox mercantilist ideas. His interest in physiocracy aroused when he entered in 1770 into the service of the margrave Karl Friedrich von Baden-Durlach. The margrave entrusted him with the introduction of reforms based upon the new principles in the village of Dietlingen (near Durlach), where he among other things abolished serfdom and the guild system. This is his only book written in French, according to a notice at the end finished in August 1771 in Paris, where he had gone in the company of the margrave to meet the 'economistes' personally. The next year he left the service of the margrave and went to Basle where he helped his friend Isaac Iselin with the publishing of the important physiocratic journal Ephemeriden der Menschheit'. In 1777 he was honoured with a professorship at the newly founded Oekonomische Fakultat' in Giessen which he held unto 1785. *Kress 6899. Palgrave III,p.361. Schumpeter p.227. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 23523

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Titel: Les moyens d'arreter la misere publique et ...

Verlag: Carolsrouhe [Paris], Michel Macklot 1772

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