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Boisguilbert, Pierre Le Pesant de (1646-1714) Le Detail de la France, la cause de la diminution de ses biens et la facilité de Remede.
[Rouen: No Printer], 1696.
12mo, bound in later mottled sheepskin with gilt-tooled spine and marbled edges, worn head of spine chipped, corners worn, scattered minor foxing; lower outer corner torn from G5 with text loss; ex libris E. Pelay of Rouen with book label inside front board; ex libris Charles Lormier (also of Rouen) with lozenge-shaped bookplate with monogram on ffep; 6 x 3 1/2 in.
An analysis of the deterioration of the French economy under Louis XIV, first published the year before, proposing tax reform and free trade as remedies. "Boisguilbert is largely remembered as a precursor of the Physiocrats and as the economist whom Marx linked with Petty as marking the start of classical political economy. His influence was undoubtedly more extensive. [...] A wealth of embryonic tools and concepts can be found in his work." (Quoted from The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics; I, 508.)
