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Claude-Jacques Herbert, 1700-1758.

French liberal writer of the early Enlightenment whose main 1753 treatise attacked the traditional "state-provisionist" doctrines on grains.  Following up on Vauban and Boisguilbert,  Herbert advocated the lifting of  restrictions on  internal trade on grain.  His 1753 tract was very influential in Enlightenment circles.  

Little is known about his life.  He had some estates in the Bordeaux area.  Ruined by his relatives, Herbert committed suicide.

 

  

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Major Works of Claude-Jacques Herbert

  • Essai sur la police générale des grains, 1753 [bk] [1755 ed av, bnf; 1757 ed; 1759 ed] [1910 repr.av, bnf] [McM; bris, ws]
  • "Arguments en faveur de la liberté du commerce des grains", 1754, Journal Oeconomique
  • Discours sur les vignes, 1756 [bk]
 
 
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Resources on Claude Herbert

  • "Herbert, Claude-Jacques" in C. Coquelin and G.U. Guillaumin, editors, 1852, Dictionnaire de l'économie politique [1894 ed.]
  • "Herbert, Claude-Jacques" in R.H. Inglis Palgrave, editor, 1894-1901 Dictionary of Political Economy [1901 ed.]
  • Herbert page at McMaster.
  • "Review of Herbert's Police" by Henri See, Annales de Bretagne [pers]
  • Observations sur la liberté du commerce des grains, 1759 by Claude-Humbert Piarron de Chamousset [bk] (mistakenly attributed to C.J. Herbert by Barbier)
  • Wikipedia
 
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