This study moves away from the usual depiction of Say as a one dimensional popularizer of Smith and proponent of libertarian ideology. Here he is placed in context, at the confluence of several major currents in social philosophy

A Theory of Employment Systems considers why there are such great international differences in the way employment relations are organized within the firm. Taking account of the growing evidence that international diversity is not being wiped out by 'globalization', it sets out from the theory of...

Francis I's ties with the Ottoman Empire marked the birth of court-sponsored Orientalism in France. Under Louis XIV, French society was transformed by cross-cultural contacts with the Ottomans, India, Persia, China, Siam and the Americas. The consumption of silk, cotton cloth, spices, coffee,...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Money, Weights, and Measures -- Part One: An Old Industry -- Chapter One: French Industry in the Eighteenth Century -- Chapter Two: Making Paper -- Chapter Three: The Montgolfiers and Their Craft -- Chapter Four: Rags, Regulation, and Government...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: The Value of Kings -- Chapter Two: and the "Depopulation Letters" -- Chapter Three: Celibacy -- Chapter Four: Divorce, the Demographic Spur -- Chapter Five: Polygamy -- Chapter Six: Rousseau and the Paradoxes of Reproduction --...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Practices of Beauty: The Creation of a Consumer Market -- 2 A Market for Beauty: The Production of Cosmetics -- 3 Advertising Beauty: The Culture of Publicity -- 4 Maligning Beauty: The Critics Take on Artifice -- 5 Domesticating...

Addressing the question of why the Industrial Revolution occurred first in England, Rick Szostak demonstrates the crucial role played by the development of a nation-wide network of land and water transport. He rejects revisionist arguments that downplay the significance of transportation to the...

Economists interested in location choices usually focus their attention on investments abroad. This neglects the fact that multinational enterprises continue to invest domestically while undertaking foreign expansion. This paper compares investments at home and abroad. Our firm-level dataset...

Recently, the export performance of France relative to its own past and relative to a major trading partner, Germany, deteriorated. That deterioration seems related to the geographical destination and product composition of trend exports. Faced with an increase in unit labor costs or in its...