Mably and the liberalisation of the grain trade: An economically and socially inefficient policy

Julie Ferrand

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2013, vol. 20, issue 6, 882-905

Abstract: Mably wrote Du Commerce des grains in 1775, in which he exposed his hostility against the liberalisation of grain trade as well as Physiocracy. During the Guerre des Farines , he denounced the economic and social inefficiency of such a policy. According to Mably, justifying free trade as a means of compensation for insufficient demand was a "non-sense". The mistake committed by Physiocrats was that of envisaging the possibility of pursuing a supply policy without taking into account the divergent interests of economic actors, in particular those of the owners and the non-owners.

Date: 2013
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