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Introduction,. This book is concerned with the pivotal decades of the eighteenth century in which industry became, for the first time, the focus of heated debates in France and in many other European countries. Voltaire and other prominent thinkers of the enlightenment. were involved in these controversies in wh

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How Much Industry Does a Nation Need?,of the age of Louis XIV by the Abbé de Saint-Pierre (1658–1743) was published in 1756. In the same period, the Physiocratic school with its strong views about industry and marked dislike of Colbert rose to dominate the debates on political economy. However, in the period was also published an eloque

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Conclusion,ssed at such an early time. Several decades before the period that came to be known as the ‘industrial revolution’ the phenomenon of industry had already become the subject of controversial public debate. In these debates the production and consumption of goods — just as many other aspects of social

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