Isnard a N (3 results)

PF. Condition: New.

PF. Condition: New.

hardcover. Condition: fine. first edition. Grand in-8°0 relié, cartonnage moderne titre gravé, 124 pages. Une mouillure claire sans dommages sur les quatre derniers feuillets. Modern boards. Kress B.1434; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Martin & Walter; not in INED. First edition. In nine chapters Isnard gives suggestions for the reform of taxes, the political and administrative structure, the division and limitation of power (puissance souveraine, puissance nationale, corps intermediare), provincial administration, the civil and criminal legislation, etc.Isnard (1749-1803) is the author of the important, and today very rare, work Traité des richesses (1781), and he was the first writer to attempt a mathematical definition and a mathematical proof of an economic equilibrium. The significance of Isnard's performance is that he discovered early on the truth that value is not an intrinsic thing but rather a magnitude which necessarily varies in relation to other goods, whose worth is also interdependent. (New Palgrave).The fact that the anonymous author makes references to his Traité des Richesses and his Plan de Banque nationale is sufficient proof to attribute the present work to Achille-Nicolas Isnard.…