Title: The Political Economy of Virtue
Description: "Drawing on hundreds of political economic tracts published in France between the 1740s and the early nineteenth century, Shovlin shows how mid-level French elites (magistrates, clerics, lawyers, soldiers, landed gentlemen) sought to balance their interests and values with the need to regenerate a nation that had seemingly entered a period of decline."--Jacket.
Subjects: Economics, history, France, economic conditions, France, history, revolution, 1789-1799, Luxury, Patriotism, Economics, History, Moral and ethical aspects, Economic aspects, Intellectual life, Economic conditions