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BIELFELD, Institutions politiques, 1760
BIELFELD, Jacques-Frédéric (Baron de).
Institutions politiques.
La Haye, Pierre Gosse, 1760.
Two volumes 4to (254x198 mm), (4)-iv-(2)-358-(8) pages and frontispiece / (6)-344-(6) pages and 4 folding tables. binding : Quarter calf, flat spine. Light waterstain on the second volume.
First edition.
Baron Bielfeld was an advisor to Frederick II of Prussia, his work consists mainly of reflections on national governance.
His work had a significant impact on both political science and statistics. He would be the first to introduce the word "statistics" to replace the term political arithmetic.
references: Ycart [ "Jakob Bielfeld (1717–1770) and the diffusion of statistical concepts in eighteenth century Europe" : "This book became a kind of economics bestseller in its day, containing for example an extensive typology of the origins of the decadence of states. [...] “Institutions Politiques” were instrumental in diffusing the main concepts of political arithmetics, as well as German Statistik, all over Europe at the end of the eighteenth century"].
Price : 450 €
European VAT number: FR87515091171
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