The Stakes of Regulation: Perspectives on 'Bread, Politics and Political Economy' Forty Years Later

Steven L. Kaplan

Scholars have long regarded 'Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV' (1976) as marking an important moment in the study of the social, political and cultural history of eighteenth-century France. 'The Stakes of Regulation' is the companion volume to a new edition of this landmark study, revealing how Kaplan's thinking has evolved in reaction both to the changing intellectual, epistemological, historiographical and socio-political environment, and to the significant scholarship that has been accomplished during the past forty years. Kaplan remains faithful to his original premise: that the subsistence question is at the core of eighteenth century history, and that the issues joined by the struggle over liberalization continue to shape our destiny today through the bristling tension between liberty and equality, and the debate over the necessity, legitimacy and character of regulation.

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Perspectives on 'Bread, Politics and Political Economy' Forty Years Later

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Introduction
pp ix-xl

Chapter I - (Re-)Thinking Regulation: Police, Prices, Markets
pp 1-60

Chapter II - Agriculture and the French Economy of the Old Regime
pp 61-94

Chapter III - Collective Action and Its Actors: The Moral Economy and the Market, the People and the Elites, Disorder and Order
pp 95-176

Chapter IV - The Parlements in the Age of Economic Enlightenment
pp 177-224

Chapter V - Kings and Ministers: Politics and Policies, Finance and Subsistence
pp 225-266

Chapter VI - The New Historiography of Political Economy
pp 267-334

Chapter VII - Famine, Dearth and Food (In-)Security
pp 335-384

Afterword
pp 385-400

Index
pp 401-427

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