TURGOT, Anne Robert Jacques.

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Mémoire Qui contient les principes de l'Administration Politique, sur la propriété des Carrières et des Mines, et sur les Règles de leur exploitation. First separate edition of Turgot's tract on French mining law, first published in extract in volume 7 of the 1767 Ephémérides du Citoyen."[Turgot's] unwearied efforts to promote the welfare of the people rendered him truly popular... Particular occasions upon which it became necessary for the government to consult him drew from his able pen reports in which the great lines of important economic principles were boldly laid down. Such are his memoir on mines and quarries (the economic and legal aspects of free mining) and his study of the laws of interest (a defence of free trade in capital)" (Palgrave III, pp. 591-2).

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