[GALIANI], Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds, 1770
[GALIANI, Ferdinando] || [DIDEROT, Denis].
Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds.
Londres, s.n., 1770.
8vo (194x124 mm), (4)-314-(1) pages. binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt flat spine.
First edition. Book revised and published by Diderot from a manuscript by Ferdinando Galiani, in which the latter expresses reservations about the free trade in grain adopted by the edicts of 1763 and 1764. Galiani is indeed opposed to the export of wheat outside France, while French regions may still experience periods of famine. This is one of the first criticisms of nascent economic liberalism. What will be worth to him to be strongly attacked by the spirit of time, Turgot judging that the step of Galiani is representative of the stubborn refusal, and obscurantist, of the scientific novelty.