VERRI, Pietro.

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Meditazioni sulla economia politica. First edition. The work, "a complete treatise on political economy" (The New Palgrave), went through six editions within two years and was translated into French, German, Dutch and English. Verri makes a detailed analysis of production, examining the different causes which lead to an increase of population and of the balance between production and consumption."This ratio or balance is the key concept in Verri's economic analysis, since it not only influences economic growth but also values the rate of interest, and, via its influence on the balance of trade it also determines national money supply" (ibid.). "Written with great brevity and clearness... his object was not so much to produce a systematic treatise, as to show the impolicy of restrictions, especially of those restraining the freedom of the corn-trade and of those growing out of the privileges of corporations" (McCulloch).This is the second issue, with a title page - the title page and index were printed separately, and some copies escaped without a title and only a half-title (see di Verri). Most of the reference works do not note the issues.

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