All Posts Tagged With: "Destutt de Tracy"
The Evil of Government Debt
As we’ve seen in the last two issues, Destutt de Tracy, writing in early nineteenth-century France, had solid insights about the market process and government spending as a form of consumption not investment. In light of that, no one will be surprised that Tracy opposed government borrowing. In this day of trillion-dollar-plus federal deficits, his [...]
25Aug2010 | Sheldon Richman | 3 comments | ContinuedGovernment as Consumer
Destutt de Tracy, as I discussed in the June issue, was a French economist whom Thomas Jefferson did his utmost to bring to the attention of America. The first part of Tracy’s A Treatise on Political Economy (1817), the translation of which Jefferson arranged, is a primer in economics that will satisfy any aficionado of [...]
29Jun2010 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | ContinuedJefferson’s Economist
See update below. In 1817 the Frenchman Destutt de Tracy (1754–1836) published his Treatise on the Will and Its Effects. Thomas Jefferson was so enthusiastic about Tracy’s book that he had it translated, then edited and revised the translation himself. He renamed it A Treatise on Political Economy. Why was Jefferson so excited about the [...]
20May2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Evil of Government Debt
In this day of trillion-dollar-plus federal deficits, Destutt de Tracy’s critique of government debt is especially relevant.
19Mar2010 | Sheldon Richman | 15 comments | ContinuedTGIF: Government as Consumer
Destutt de Tracy, like other liberal, free-market economists of early nineteenth-century France, saw the State essentially as a predator, a destroyer of value, and the source of class conflict. Read the rest of TGIF here.
12Mar2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedGovernment as Consumer
Destutt de Tracy, like other liberal, free-market economists of early nineteenth-century France, saw the State essentially as a predator, a destroyer of value, and the source of class conflict.
12Mar2010 | Sheldon Richman | 13 comments | ContinuedTGIF: Jefferson’s Economist
In 1817 the Frenchman the Count Destutt de Tracy published his Treatise on the Will and Its Effects. Thomas Jefferson was so enthusiastic he had it translated into English. Read TGIF here.
5Mar2010 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedJefferson’s Economist
In 1817 the Frenchman the Count Destutt de Tracy published his Treatise on the Will and Its Effects. Thomas Jefferson was so enthusiastic he had it translated into English.
5Mar2010 | Sheldon Richman | 16 comments | Continued-
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