A new edition of Kaplan's landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy, reissued with a new Foreword by Sophus A.
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Based on research in all the Parisian depots and more than fifty departmental archives and specialized and municipal libraries, Kaplan's classic work constitutes a major contribution to the study of the subsistence problem before the French Revolution and the political economy of deregulatory reform.
The study focuses on the radical legal changes freein.