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On the national debt of England, by an intimate of Diderot

CASAUX, Charles, marquis de.
Thoughts on the mechanism of societies.





London, T. Spilsbury for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, W. Richardson & J. Debrett, 1786. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt coat of arms of The society of the writers to the Signet on sides, title on red morocco label on spine, decorated binding edges, blue speckled edges. XIX, (1 blank), 411 (5 blank) pp.

Original and only English edition of this treatise on the 'National Debt of England' and how to solve that problem, translated from the French (Considérations sur quelques parties du méchanisme des sociétés. London, T. Spilsbury, 1785) by Parkyns Mac Mahon.
Charles de Casaux (1727-1796) was a French economist, sociologist, agronomist
A proprietor on the island of Grenada, De Casaux became an English subject by the cession of the colony in 1763 and devoted much of his time to the cultivation of sugar cane - he also wrote on the subject. From 1788 to 1792 he resided in Paris, and from 1792 in London, where, among other things, he translated Arthur Young's Travels in France into French. In the present work Casaux discusses commerce, industry and manufacture, taxation (f.e. a tax on landownership), national debt, balance of trade between England and Holland and France, agriculture, the American colonies, prices, currency, luxury, &c. He refers frequently to the statistics and analyses of Arthur Young and Sir Charles Whitworth, and also mentions Adam Smith (p. 135). The author, an intimate of Diderot, editor writes in the preface (on p. XIV): 'I shall again suppose, as another result, that it has been a mistaken notion, to imagine that the revenue of the People must be lessened, in order to increase that of the Prince:- What is  that to the Prince - what is it to the People - provided  both be now convinced, that it is not possible to enrich the one, either really or nominally, without enriching the other in the same manner, and in the same proportion?'

Good copy.- (Front cover loose).
Goldsmith I, 13130 & 12807 (English respectively French edition); cf. Einaudi I, 925 (French ed.); Kress B-828 (French ed.).

Related Subjects: 18th Century  Economy  Politics  Trade  Treatises 

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