Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains

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Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains is an influential 18th-century economic treatise by Turgot advocating the free trade of grain and criticizing government intervention in grain markets.

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instanceOf economic treatise
political pamphlet
written work
advocates free trade of grain
market-determined grain prices
removal of restrictions on grain trade
aimsTo demonstrate harms of grain trade restrictions
justify liberalization of grain trade
associatedWith French Enlightenment
author Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
surface form: Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
surface form: Turgot
countryOfOrigin France
criticizes mercantilist policies
price controls on grain
regulation of grain trade
state intervention in grain markets
discusses famine prevention
food security
relationship between prices and supply
role of government in markets
fieldOfWork economic policy
political economy
genre economic literature
political economy
hasNotableProponent Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
surface form: Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
historicalPeriod Ancien Régime
surface form: Ancien Régime in France
influenced debates on grain trade regulation in France
later liberal economic thought
influencedBy physiocracy
surface form: physiocrats
intellectualContext pre-Revolutionary French economic reforms
mainSubject agricultural economics
economic liberalism
free trade in grain
government intervention in markets
grain trade
price controls
movement classical liberalism
physiocracy
originalLanguage French
publicationCentury 18th century
supports laissez-faire economic policy
property rights of grain producers
theoreticalBasis natural order in economics
physiocratic theory
titleLanguage French
translatedTitle Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains self-linksurface differs
surface form: Letter on the Freedom of the Grain Trade
workType letter

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Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot notableWork Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains
Anne-Robert-Jacques notableWork Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains
subject surface form: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains translatedTitle Lettre sur la liberté du commerce des grains self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Letter on the Freedom of the Grain Trade