Commerce and Government Considered in their Mutual Relationship

• Étienne Bonnot, Abbé de Condillac (author)
• Walter Eltis (introduction)
• Shelagh Eltis (translator)

This text covers such topics as value, money, agriculture, domestic and foreign trade, war, labor, interest rates, luxuries, and the various government policies that affect these subjects.The theme that unites these disparate subjects is liberty. As Condillac writes near the end of the work, the means to eradicate all the abuses and injustices of government is “to give trade full, complete and permanent freedom.”