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Political economy, John Shovlin asserts, can illuminate the social and economic contexts out of which a revolutionary impulse developed in France. Beyond the role of political economy in political life, massive public engagement with problems of...



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Explores how French elites in the eighteenth and early nineteeth centuries sought to balence their interests and values with the need to regenerate a nation that had seemingly entered a period of decline. Discusses political economy and public life in eighteenth-century France; commerce finance and the luxery debate; constructing a patriot political economy; regenerating the patrie—agronomists, tzx reformers, and physiocrats; patriotic commerce and aristocratic luxery; political economy and the prerevolutionary crisis; the agrarian law and the republican farmer; and the political economy of the notables.

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The Political Economy of Virtue

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/10/2007
      ISBN13: 9780801474187, 978-0801474187
      ISBN10: 0801474183
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Political economy, John Shovlin asserts, can illuminate the social and economic contexts out of which a revolutionary impulse developed in France. Beyond the role of political economy in political life, massive public engagement with problems of...



      Trade Review

      Explores how French elites in the eighteenth and early nineteeth centuries sought to balence their interests and values with the need to regenerate a nation that had seemingly entered a period of decline. Discusses political economy and public life in eighteenth-century France; commerce finance and the luxery debate; constructing a patriot political economy; regenerating the patrie—agronomists, tzx reformers, and physiocrats; patriotic commerce and aristocratic luxery; political economy and the prerevolutionary crisis; the agrarian law and the republican farmer; and the political economy of the notables.

      * Journal of Economic Literature *

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