[GRASLIN (Jean-Joseph-Louis)]. An analytical essay on wealth - Lot 62

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[GRASLIN (Jean-Joseph-Louis)]. An analytical essay on wealth - Lot 62
[GRASLIN (Jean-Joseph-Louis)]. An analytical essay on wealth and taxation, in which the new economic doctrine is refuted, which provided the Royal Agricultural Society of Limoges with the principles of a Program it published on the effect of Indirect Taxes. London, s.n., 1767. In-8, granite calf, richly decorated smooth spine, red edges (contemporary binding). Goldsmiths, number 10266. - INED, n°2126. Original edition, rare. Tax collector in Nantes, Graslin (1727-1790) was one of the most brilliant and fierce detractors of Quesnay and the school of physiocrats. It was in this Analytical Essay ... that he published, before Adam Smith, with whom he had studied political economy, a theory of wealth based on work: His main work is a critique of physiocratic conceptions of wealth, production and taxation, to which he preferred a kind of progressive income tax. He refuted the physiocratic theory that a subsistence tax or an increase in the price of wheat is necessarily accompanied by an increase in wages (Spengler, pp.291-292). Pleasant copy in a nice quality binding. Bookseller's label stuck on the back of the first blank page. Lack of angled paper without damage to the text on page Aa1. Traces left by the return of the skin in the margins of the last 2 table leaves. Small rubbing at the binding.
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