Principles Of Social Economy Classic Reprint

Author : Yves Guyot
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330377123
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Principles of Social Economy written by Yves Guyot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Principles of Social Economy The author of these pages on the Principles of Social Economy is not insensible to the honour conferred on him by their presentation to the English public; nor is this honour the less gratifying because lie feels that in crossing the Channel his doctrines are returning, in a sense, to the land of their birth - the land of Adam Smith, the land of Malthus, Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill; of Pelham Villiers, of Cobden and John Bright, of Fawcett, Shaw Lefevre, and Mundella. So much is his book an English book, that even where he attacks the conclusions of these masters, it is largely on the ground of facts taken from the economic development of their own country. In the matter of Economy England leads the vanguard of the nations; and it is therefore on her experience that all forward-looking eyes are fixed; while, by the thoroughness of her investigations and the accuracy of her statistics, she has opened a mine of information to which we go for the material of our economic studies, just as we go for coal to Newcastle or Cardiff, for iron to Stockton, for steel to Sheffield, for engines to Birmingham, for cloth to Leeds, for cottons to Manchester, for ships to the Thames, the Clyde, and the Mersey. In France we are as yet far behind. In spite of the labours of a few clear-sighted and honest thinkers, like Jean Baptiste Say and Bastiat, we are still ruled for the most part by what Buckle called "the protective spirit;" what the Italian Menzotti calls "Colbertism." It would be saying too much if we were to charge the memory of Colbert with the whole responsibility of a system not of his invention, and which in his day was more or less recognised and practised in every country in Europe; but it was undoubtedly he who organised and consolidated it, expounded its theory, and attempted a rigorous and extended application of it. The system perfectly corresponded with the monarchic ideal of Louis Quatorzc. Regarding himself as being, by Divine investiture, the absolute master of his subjects, the king claimed to direct all their actions social, intellectual, and religious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.