Commerce, Culture, and Liberty: Readings on Capitalism before Adam Smith.

680 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Very good and clean. - Sehr gut und sauber. - Contents: Foreword -- Editor’s Note -- Translator’s Note -- Acknowledgments -- Conceptions for a Free Trade, William Walwyn -- Political Maxims of the State of Holland, Pieter de la Court -- A New Discourse of Trade, Josiah Child -- Moral Essays, Pierre Nicole -- A Discourse of Trade, Nicholas Barbon -- Discourses upon Trade, Dudley North -- Second Discourse on the Affairs of Scotland, Andrew Fletcher -- The Spectator, Richard Steele -- “General Idea of the New System of Finances, ” John Law -- Cato's Letters, John Trenchard -- The Fable of the Bees, Bernard Mandeville -- An Enquiry Whether a General Practice of Virtue Tends to the Wealth or Poverty, Benefit or Disadvantage of a People, George Blewhitt -- The Complete English Tradesman, Daniel Defoe -- Plan for the Improvement of Commerce, Charles Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre -- A Political Essay upon Commerce, Jean-François Melon -- “The Worldling, ” Voltaire -- “The Man of the World, ” Voltaire -- “On Commerce and Luxury, ” Voltaire -- Spectacle of Nature, Noël-Antoine Pluche -- Spirit of the Laws, Montesquieu -- On Money, Ferdinando Galiani -- “An Enquiry into the Causes of the Late Increase -- of Robbers, ” Henry Fielding -- “Of Refinement in the Arts, ” David Hume -- “Mémoire, ” Jacques-Claude-Marie-Vincent de Gournay “Luxury, Commerce, and the Arts, ” Jean-Jacques Rousseau A View of the Manner in Which Trade and Civil Liberty Support Each Other, William Hazeland -- The Commercial Nobility, Gabriel François Coyer -- An Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times, John Brown -- “In Praise of Gournay, ” Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot “Luxury, ” Jean-François Saint-Lambert -- A View of the Progress of Society in Europe, -- William Robertson -- Reflections on the Formation and the Distribution of Wealth, Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot -- On the Origin and Progress of a New Science, Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours -- Dialogues on the Grain Trade, Ferdinando Galiani -- “A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, ” Guillaume-Thomas-Franfois Raynal -- On the Origin of the Distinction of Ranks, John Millar -- Commerce and Government Considered in Their Mutual -- Relationship, Etienne Bonnot de Condillac -- Glossary -- Index. ISBN 9780865973794