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LAUDERDALE (James Maitland, Earl of). Recherches sur la nature et l'origine de la richesse publique, et sur les moyens et les causes qui concourent à son accroissement; (...) translated from the English, by E. Lagentie de Lavaïsse. Paris, Dentu, 1808. In-8, speckled tan calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, red title page, double cold fillet on the boards, yellow tr. (period binding). A good copy. First French translation of this work which was at the origin of a famous controversy with Lord Brougham, and which is also among the first to draw attention to the economic consequences of a budget surplus or deficit, a notion still extremely unexplored at the time.
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LAUDERDALE (James Maitland, Earl of). Recherches sur la nature et l'origine de la richesse publique, et sur les moyens et les causes qui concourent à son accroissement; (...) translated from the English, by E. Lagentie de Lavaïsse. Paris, Dentu, 1808. In-8, speckled tan calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, red title page, double cold fillet on the boards, yellow tr. (period binding). A good copy. First French translation of this work which was at the origin of a famous controversy with Lord Brougham, and which is also among the first to draw attention to the economic consequences of a budget surplus or deficit, a notion still extremely unexplored at the time.
