The political economy of virtue : luxury, patriotism, and the origins of the French Revolution / John Shovlin.

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2006], ©2006.

265 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

"Cornell paperbacks"--T.p. verso.

Introduction : political economy and public life in eighteenth-century France -- Commerce, finance, and the luxury debate -- Constructing a patriot political economy -- Regenerating the patrie : agronomists, tax reformers, and physiocrats -- Patriotic commerce and aristocratic luxury -- Political economy and the prerevolutionary crisis -- The agrarian law and the republican farmer -- Conclusion : the political economy of the notables.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-256) and index.

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