Titlebook: Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV; Volume One Steven L. Kaplan Book 19761st edition Springer Science+Business

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The Police of ProvisioningVirtually everyone who practiced or wrote about public administration, or what was commonly called “police” in the old regime, considered provisioning to be among its paramount concerns. “The abundance of grain,” intoned Colbert, “is the thing to which we must pay the most attention in the police.”

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The Regulations and the Regulatorstion. This chapter deals with the police view of the grain trade and the ways in which the police translated their attitudes into action. It is the story of persistence rather than change, of an overwhelming sense of continuity informed by a belief that things—at least subsistence things—are at bott

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Forcing Grain to be Free: The Government Holds the Linetment to liberalization and to high prices as an express policy of state. Laverdy correctly believed that traditional attitudes toward subsistence constituted the single greatest barrier to change. But, like many self-consciously enlightened ministers and reformers, he neither understood nor sympath