FORCING GRAIN TO BE FREE THE GOVERNMENT HOLDS THE LINE

The government responded to the burgeoning unrest—popular revolts and police resistance—with a hard and determined line, starkly re-affirming its commitment to liberalization and to high prices as an express policy of state. Laverdy correctly believed that traditional attitudes toward subsistence co...

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Published inBread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV p. 215
Main Author Kaplan, Steven L
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom Anthem Press 15.09.2015
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Agricultural sciences
Agriculture
Agronomy
Behavioral sciences
Biological sciences
Business
Business operations
Businesspeople
Commerce
Crops
Economic disciplines
Economic history
Economics
Employment
Field crops
Food crops
Government
Government services
Grain trade
Grains
Human behavior
Labor economics
Law enforcement
Liberalism
Liberalization
Market prices
Merchants
Occupations
Police
Political change
Political economy
Political ideologies
Political philosophy
Political processes
Political science
Politics
Prices
Pricing
Riots
Trade
Violence
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Summary:The government responded to the burgeoning unrest—popular revolts and police resistance—with a hard and determined line, starkly re-affirming its commitment 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 sympathized with the workings of popular psychology, nor did he know how to deal with it. Diffusing light, to be sure, was no easy matter; since all men were not equally equipped to seize the truth, often it was
ISBN:0857285106
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