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... in the last decades of the eighteenth century to show how some legal sources, particularly the ones related to the interpretation and justification of police ordinances as part of the studies of direito pátrio (national law), offered important facets to understand this dissemination process. The discussion...

... by a nation in a given year (Cartelier and Piguet 1999: 82 83). In all these uses, I argue, the term resonates with the concept of the laws of reproduction assigned to living beings by naturalists such as Buffon. It was on the basis of the claim that only living beings could multiply that the physiocrats...

... the level of national welfare and the civic participation the laws have to improve the position of the least advantaged individuals; the constitution has to sanction this principle of justice and it is the task of the legislator to enforce it. References Armando David Sanna Manuela . 2013...

... of this stock necessarily determines the comparative greatness of kingdoms and States”—or Law ([1705] 1843 : 506): “To be powerful and wealthy in proportion to other nations, we should have money in proportion with them.” From the physiocratic perspective, however, this view was somewhat paradoxical: How could...

... Fitzjames Stephen among the early contributors to the Saturday Review and was Whewell Professor of Inter- national Law at Cambridge and a parliamentary Liberal. 147.See Leslie Stephen, Life of Henry Fawcett (London, 1885), pp. 22-24; F. W. Maitland, The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen...

...— and the particular national laws; he suggests to Windischgrätz a reform limited to the “Style Books” of his country.17 The letter ends with Smith’s response to Windischgrätz’s two proposals. First, Smith declines Windis- chgrätz’s request that he urge his colleagues at the Royal Society of Edin- burgh...

..., as in the Wealth of Nations, is Smith’s reliance on his stages theory of history. These stages are defined largely in terms of their respective systems of law and government and point to the ubiquity and importance of legal social control and the effects of changes therein. And from a practical perspective...

... on the poverty line and the aged poor maintained themselves. He also demonstrates that, even taking account of higher levels of unemployment, the share of the population receiving benefits increased markedly after the Poor Law was largely replaced by national insurance, supplemented by means-tested national...

... nation was only a means to higher ends-peace and prosperity. When questioned by a critic why he jeopardized his own life by proposing an unpopular reform, one aimed at nothing less than subjecting everyone to law, Han Feitzu replied: “[It is] because I believe that by setting up laws...

... biases can be found in the extensive use of these two instruments in The Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments, as well as in the interaction between Smith and his most famous intellectual adversary on usury—Jeremy Bentham. To show how usury laws make sense in Smith’s world...

... and makes unnecessary a law prohibiting its export. The great end it serves here is to increase the domestic capital stock-not British capital in its entirety, not capital that is held abroad, but the capital that is within the nation and only that. That was the capital that interested...

... the economy is conceptualized as an interrelated system of commodity and factor markets with linkages to other nations’ economies. Sumptuary laws therefore tend to interfere with what would otherwise be the normal functioning of commodity markets and international commodity flows. The Interest Rate...

...- ately narrow focus of this article. Choksy I The Norths’ Macroeconomics 517 The North Brothers’ Macroeconomic Analysis My Intent is to examine the Condition of the Nation with Regard to the Laws made, and in Force, for Maintenance of the Poor, and their Settlements...

... of humankind.6 These maxims of governance, and their application in the positive law of nations, must be consistent with the natural laws that the Author of the universe has established for our good. Quesnay explores the relationship between positive and natural law in two works from the middle...

... . The Anti-Trust Laws and the Social Control of Business. In The Federal Anti-Trust Laws: A Symposium , edited by Milton Handler. Chicago: Commerce Clearing House. ____. 1932b . The Control of Big Business. Nation , 25 May, 591 -93. ____. 1932c . The Problem of Anti-Trust Reform. Columbia Law...

...S. Todd Lowry Lars Magnusson. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. 222 pp. $65.00. James Steven Rogers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 267 pp. $59.95. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 References Benson , Bruce . 1990 . The Enterprise of Law...

... Laws. With Appendix. Report of the Committee of the Privy Council &c . Edinburgh: John Anderson and London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown. Dawson , William. 1814b . Causes of the Poverty of Nations. In the Quarterly List of New Publications, Edinburgh Review 45 : 258...

... of U.S. International Copyright Laws on the Market for Books, 1790-1920 . Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research. Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut. 1951 . The Book in America: A History of the Making and Selling of Books in the United States . New York: R. R. Bowker Company. McGill...

..., Sergio Cremaschi, Heinz D. Kurz, Andrea Maneschi, and two anonymous referees of this journal for their valuable comments on a previous version of this article. Copyright 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Thomas Robert Malthus David Ricardo Corn Laws international trade coordination games...

... Laws in the long run, though he occasionally admitted to their significance as emergency relief On the issue of national debt, Malthus mentioned in the second edi- tion that it was injurious to the economy because it would reduce new investment in land, keeping the rate of interest high...