Historical Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 39

[cahn]

Last post, along with the usual 18th-century suspects, included the Ottonians; changing ideas of conception and women's sexual pleasure; Isabella of Parma (the one who fell in love, and vice versa, with her husband's sister); Henry IV and Bertha (and Henry's second wife divorcing him for "unspeakable sexual acts"). (Okay, Isabella of Parma was 18th century.)

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Re: 18th century economic theories

[luzula]

James Steuart of Goodtrees (Jacobite in exile after the '45, friend of Mary Wortley Montague, and sister of Mrs Calderwood whose journal I wrote up for salon) wrote the treatise An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Economy in 1767. Wikipedia says: The book was the most complete and systematic survey of the science from the point of view of moderate mercantilism which had appeared in England and indeed the first full-fledged economics treatise to appear anywhere. The latter claim seems improbable, though...

Re: 18th century economic theories

[mildred_of_midgard]

I don't know if it was the first, but the author of an essay in the Physiocracy book likes it!

..the advocate James D. Steuart (died 1780)...becoming well known through his book “Inquiry into the principles of political economy,” 1767; it is regarded as one of the best works in mercantilistic literature.

That's the only mention of him in this book. Thank you for bringing this to my attention!