Description:
This volume introduces two very early, unique, and hitherto largely unknown contributions to the making of modern economic knowledge: Fronsperger's on the role of self-interest in economic development (later called the 'Mandeville Paradox') and Laffemas' on the importance of an active industrial policy. Both for the first time in English.
Review Quotes:
"The history of economics has famously been dubbed 'the wrong opinions of dead men'. This handsome little book with translations of texts by Leonhard Fronsperger (1564) and Barthélemy de Laffemas (1597) plus valuable classifications by editors and commentators shows how wrong this view is - an expression of provincialism of time." -- Professor em. Dr. Dr. h.c. Heinz D. Kurz, Department of Economics and Graz Schumpeter Centre, University of Graz, Austria.