Download or read book Commerce and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century French Political Thought written by Anoush Fraser Terjanian and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uncovers the ambivalence towards commerce in eighteenth-century France, questioning the assumption that commerce was widely celebrated in the era of Adam Smith.