GASTALDI, Louis.
De la liberté commerciale, du crédit et des banques, avec projet d’une banque générale du crédit et de l’industrie ...
Turin, Mussano, 1840.
8vo, pp. 319, [5 including index and errata]; occasional light foxing, but a fine copy in contemporary green morocco gilt, sides with a gilt neo-classical roll border and a further blind-rolled inner border enclosing a centrepiece of florets and foliage, flat spine decorated and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers; ink ownership inscription on the title; exlibris of Cesare Saluzzo to the front paste-down.
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De la liberté commerciale, du crédit et des banques, avec projet d’une banque générale du crédit et de l’industrie ...
First edition, a very attractive copy with a good provenance, of this important monograph on credit and the banking system, and its role as support in the creation of wealth.
Gastaldi’s work begins with an exposition of his political economy, which describes free trade and general peace as natural preconditions for growth without which no-one can realistically look at a prosperous future. The second and most substantial part examines the relationship between national production and credit, exploring the positive effects of credit institutions designed specifically to support production and industry, and offering an outline of rules and examples of good practice (citing the regulations of numerous banks Europe-wide) to prevent credit from threatening the human fabric of the agricultural and secondary sectors.
Goldsmiths’-Kress no. 31598.18.
