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A Treatise on Political Economy by Antonie Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836) is a foundational text of nineteenth-century, free-market economic thought and remains one of the classics of nineteenth-century French economic liberalism. Destutt de Tracy was one of the founders of the classical liberal republican group known as the Idéologues, which included Benjamin Constant, Jean-Baptiste Say, Marquis de Condorcet, and Madame de Staël. In this volume, Destutt de Tracy provides one of the clearest statements of the economic principles of the Idéologues. Breaking with the physiocratic orthodoxy of the eighteenth century, Destutt de Tracy denies that land is the source of all productive labour and focuses his attention upon manufacturing and manufacturers as the producers of utility and, therefore, of value and of wealth. Placing the entrepreneur at the centre of his view of economic activity, he argues against luxurious consumption of the idle rich and recommends a market economy with low taxation and minimum state intervention. Destutt de Tracy sent the text of A Treatise on Political Economy to Thomas Jefferson in hopes of securing its translation in the United States. It was met with enthusiastic approval. Jefferson wrote to the publisher, "The merit of this work will, I hope, place it in the hands of every reader in our country". Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Thomas Jefferson edited the translated manuscript;
This was one of the most important economic texts in the early history of the U.S.;
The author was the man who coined the term "ideology" (afterwards Napoleon and Marx both abused it);
The text is a fine example of early free market theory.
But, more interesting to me is that this book also makes the case for treating the discipline of "political economy" as what the Archibishop Whately later called "catallactics," AND as a theory of human action, what Ludwig von Mises later called "praxeology." The original title of the work is (translated into English) "The Will and Its Effects" -- quite clearly a praxeological approach.
Destutt de Tracy tried to link his praxeology and his nascent catallactics to a Lockean theory of ideas. Not wholly successful, but very interesting.
The book is very easy to read, and though it contains a boatload of errors and theoretical mistakes, I'd rather get on and get off this boat than many another a vessel. That is, I learned a lot from reading it. ( )