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The French Revolution

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  • Aftalion,Florin

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The economic history of revolutionary France is still a neglected area in studies of the Revolution of 1789. Whilst some attention has been given to the condition of the peasants, the urban working classes and the financial crisis of the Ancient Régime, there has been a general tendency to regard economic factors as external and somewhat peripheral to the truly political nature of the Revolution. This book is designed to redress the balance, providing a clear, accessible, and thought-provoking guide to the economic background to the French Revolution. Professor Aftalion analyses the policies followed by successive revolutionary assemblies, examining in detail taxation, the confiscation of church property, the assignats, and the siege economy of the Terror. He shows how decisions taken in 1789 by the Constituent Assembly inevitably led to a deepening financial and economic crisis, and to increasingly radical and disastrous policies. The study is important also for its exposure of many of the economic fallacies propounded both at the time by many Frenchmen and later by many modern historians.

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  • Aftalion,Florin, 1990. "The French Revolution," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521368100, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:cbooks:9780521368100
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    1. Ehnts, Dirk H., 2020. "The fiscal-monetary nexus in Germany," IPE Working Papers 138/2020, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Institute for International Political Economy (IPE).
    2. Florence Gauthier, 2015. "Political Economy in the Eighteenth Century: Popular or Despotic? The Physiocrats Against the Right to Existence," Economic Thought, World Economics Association, vol. 4(1), pages 47-66, March.
    3. Michalopoulos, Stelios & Franck, Raphaël, 2018. "Emigration during the French Revolution: Consequences in the Short and Longue Durée," CEPR Discussion Papers 12573, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    4. Guido Alfani & Elena Roberta Frigeni, 2013. "Inequality (un)perceived: The emergence of a discourse on economic inequality from the Middle Ages to the Age of Revolutions," Working Papers 058, "Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi.
    5. Christopher J. Ellis & John Fender, 2014. "Public Sector Capital and the Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy," Manchester School, University of Manchester, vol. 82(3), pages 322-346, June.
    6. Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, 1992. "The French Revolution and Financial Markets: A Look Beyond Government Debt," UCLA Economics Working Papers 659, UCLA Department of Economics.
    7. Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr., 2014. "Banking and the State," Journal of Private Enterprise, The Association of Private Enterprise Education, vol. 29(Fall 2014), pages 1-10.
    8. Deepak Lal, 1998. "The World Economy at the end of the Millennium," UCLA Economics Working Papers 786, UCLA Department of Economics.
    9. Deepak Lal, 1993. "Participation, Markets and Democracy," UCLA Economics Working Papers 705, UCLA Department of Economics.
    10. Raphael Franck & Stelios Michalopoulos, 2017. "Emigration during the French Revolution: Consequences in the Short and Longue Durée," Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute Working Papers 2, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
    11. D. Lal, 1995. "Policies for Economic Development: Why the Wheel has come Full Circle," South African Journal of Economics, Economic Society of South Africa, vol. 63(4), pages 271-286, December.
    12. Christopher J. Ellis & John Fender, 2008. "Democratic Errors," University of Oregon Economics Department Working Papers 2008-2, University of Oregon Economics Department.

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