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By P. D. Groenewegen (auth.), P. D. Groenewegen (eds.)

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This booklet should be defined as a improvement of my Masters thesis, 'The Economics of A. R. J. Turgot' written on the collage of Sydney in 1961-62. It has hence been many years within the making and, keep in mind that, I in­ curred many an highbrow debt in this interval which i want to recognize right here. My thank you pass first to Professor J. R. Wilson, who great­ vised my Masters thesis and who learn a part of this manuscript in draft, to the past due Professor Jacob Viner whose great wisdom of the heritage of economics used to be placed at my disposal on a number of events, and to Professor R. L. Meek with whom i mentioned this paintings in dialog and cor­ respondence and who has given information in different alternative ways. I additionally owe an outstanding debt of gratitude to a great number of librarians for his or her guidance in unearthing sometimes used fabric housed within the collections over which they preside. particularly, I desire to recognize due to the librarians of the Fisher Library on the college of Sydney, the general public Library of latest South Wales, the Australian nationwide Library, the British Library of Economics and Political technological know-how, the British Museum, the Goldsmiths' Library on the college of London, the Kress assortment on the Baker Library at Harvard, the Seligman assortment on the Butler Library at Columbia college, and the Bibliotheque nationale.

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617, note (a) where it is indicated that no trace of the relevant documents can be found in the Archives of Haute-Vienne. 121 See Dakin, op. , p. 203. m Details of this publication are given in note 95 above. XXXIV INTRODUCTION from where it was reproduced in the later editions of Daire and Schelle. 123 SOURCES OF THE TRANSLATIONS It is not intended to provide detailed notes on the way in which Turgot's economics has been translated and on the manner in which his economic vocabularly has been rendered into English.

For a discussion of the change in title of this paper, see 'Introduction', above p. XVI, n. 31. FAIRS AND MARKETS (1757) 15 latter. Recognising this, I assume that the price of a commodity is such that in order to support the trade in it, it has to be sold in a market of three hundred families. It is obvious that three villages, each containing only one hundred families, will be able to support only a single merchant of this commodity. This merchant will probably live in that village of the three where the largest number can gather most conveniently and at the least expense, because this curtailment of expenses will give the merchant who is established in this p.

221, 223-225. 376 REMARKS ON NOTES TO CHILD (1753-1754) VI. I shall not dwell on the exceedingly vast subject of public credit, but I should wish to examine the usefulness of the transfer of debts in itself, and the advantages which result therefrom, and the means of making it more favourable. 7 VII. If all the sums paid by apprentices and at receptions 8 were used to repay the debts of the corporations and not for feasts, edifices, and law suits, the evil, if it were left to exist for a while, would perhaps bring with it its own remedy.

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