Introduction : political economy and public life in eighteenth-century France
Commerce, finance, and the luxury debate
Constructing a patriot political economy
Regenerating the patrie : agronomists, tax reformers, and physiocrats
Patriotic commerce and aristocratic luxury
Political economy and the prerevolutionary crisis
The agrarian law and the republican farmer
Conclusion : the political economy of the notables.
The political economy of virtue : luxury, patriotism, and the origins of the French Revolution by John Shovlin. ISBN 9780801444791. Published by Cornell University Press in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.