TY - BOOK ID - 85465016 TI - The stakes of regulation : perspectives on 'Bread, politics and political economy' forty years later PY - 2015 SN - 1783084774 1783084766 PB - London : Anthem Press, DB - UniCat KW - Economics KW - Economic theory KW - Political economy KW - Social sciences KW - Economic man KW - Political aspects. KW - France KW - Politics and government. KW - Economic conditions. KW - Grain trade KW - History. KW - Produce trade UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85465016 AB - Scholars have long regarded 'Bread, Politics and Political Economy in the Reign of Louis XV' (1976) as marking an important moment in the study of the social, political and cultural history of eighteenth-century France. 'The Stakes of Regulation' is the companion volume to a new edition of this landmark study, revealing how Kaplan's thinking has evolved in reaction both to the changing intellectual, epistemological, historiographical and socio-political environment, and to the significant scholarship that has been accomplished during the past forty years. Kaplan remains faithful to his original premise: that the subsistence question is at the core of eighteenth century history, and that the issues joined by the struggle over liberalization continue to shape our destiny today through the bristling tension between liberty and equality, and the debate over the necessity, legitimacy and character of regulation. ER -