{"id":1202,"date":"2009-03-03T22:35:03","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T03:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=1202"},"modified":"2018-08-09T22:36:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T02:36:43","slug":"17245-henry-c-clark-compass-of-society-commerce-and-absolutism-in-old-regime-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1202","title":{"rendered":"17245. (Henry C. Clark) Compass of Society: Commerce and Absolutism in Old-Regime France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you are under the impres\u00adsion, as many are, that eco\u00adnom\u00adic thought begins with Adam Smith, then this book will act as a cor\u00adrec\u00adtive. Hen\u00adry C. Clark out\u00adlines the chang\u00ading themes in the dis\u00adcus\u00adsion of trade that took place in France dur\u00ading the 17th and 18th cen\u00adturies, as well as the Eng\u00adlish and Dutch works that they react\u00aded to. What strikes me is that most of the issues being dis\u00adcussed are much the same as the ones being debat\u00aded today, and most of the same ideas are sim\u00adi\u00adlar. Adam Smith, in 1776, was not begin\u00adning a new dis\u00adci\u00adpline, but pro\u00adduc\u00ading a selec\u00adtive syn\u00adthe\u00adsis of a long-exist\u00ading and com\u00adplex one. Along the way to The Wealth of Nations, there was a long list of impor\u00adtant and inter\u00adest\u00ading peo\u00adple com\u00adment\u00ading on the nature of trade, mon\u00adey, and the prop\u00ader roles of the state and the indi\u00advid\u00adual in com\u00admerce. Among them was the rec\u00adog\u00adniz\u00adable, but con\u00adsis\u00adtent\u00adly under-esti\u00admat\u00aded Mon\u00adtesquieu. But there were many oth\u00ader, for\u00adgot\u00adten thinkers worth pay\u00ading atten\u00adtion&nbsp;to.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are under the impres\u00adsion, as many are, that eco\u00adnom\u00adic thought begins with Adam Smith, then this book will act as a cor\u00adrec\u00adtive. Hen\u00adry C. Clark out\u00adlines the chang\u00ading themes in the dis\u00adcus\u00adsion of trade that took place&nbsp;in&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=1202\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[946,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b-reading","category-br-reading-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8064,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1202\/revisions\/8064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}