Word: turgot
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...next volume in Macmillan's Series of Economic Classes will be a translation of Turgot's "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Riches" (1770), by the editor of the series, Professor W. J. Ashley, of Harvard. This book is a brief and lucid statement of the doctrines of those writers who are regarded the creators of modern political economy. Hitherto it has been accessible only in a translation of 1793 which has been discovered to be inaccurate...
Take the way by which these colonies were separated from England. One of two ways of progress was possible, either by right reason or by revolution. The revolutionary method prevailed. The result was the immediate loss of much Anglo-Saxon blood. Again, Turgot's efforts to bring about a gradual development of political liberty in France were of no avail against the ultra-conservatives and the Revolution followed. Even in the case of our Civil War, Henry Clay and other statesmen saw it was inevitable that slavery and freedom must conflict many years before the crisis came and they sought...
...ready are those on Adam Smith (select chapters and passages) and Ricardo (first six chapters). There will appear in a few days a volume on Malthus (parallel chapters from the first and second editions). In addition there will be published later volumes from the works of Mun, Child, Turgot, Quesnai, Roscher, and others...