{"product_id":"9780865977037","title":"Commerce and Government","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis text covers such topics as value, money, agriculture, domestic and foreign trade, war, labor, interest rates, luxuries, and the various government policies that affect these subjects.The theme that unites these disparate subjects is liberty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Condillac writes near the end of the work, the means to eradicate all the abuses and injustices of government is \"to give trade full, complete and permanent freedom.” In their preface to the 1997 edition, Shelagh and Walter Eltis wrote, \"English language readers . . . will find . . . that the case for competitive market economics has rarely been presented more powerfully.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eÉtienne Bonnot, Abbé de Condillac\u003c\/b\u003e (1714–1780) was one of eighteenth-century France’s preeminent philosophers of the Enlightenment, who had wide-ranging influence beyond metaphysics and epistemology to political thought and economics. He was a leading advocate in France of the ideas of John Locke, Bishop George Berkeley, and David Hume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShelagh Eltis\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian and graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, U.K.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWalter Eltis\u003c\/b\u003e is an Emeritus Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Reading, U.K.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liberty Fund Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022294761712,"sku":"9780865977037","price":14.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780865977037_p0.jpg?v=1763838603","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780865977037","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}