NEBENIUS (Karl Friedrich).
Bemerkungen über den Zustand Großbritanniens in staatswirthschaftlicher Hinsicht. Nebst einem Worte über Deutschlands auswärtige Handelsverhältnisse. Mit einer Uebersetzung der französischen Schrift: über England und die Engländer, von J. B. Say.
A German perspective on the economic state of Great Britain
NEBENIUS (Karl Friedrich).
Bemerkungen über den Zustand Großbritanniens in staatswirthschaftlicher Hinsicht. Nebst einem Worte über Deutschlands auswärtige Handelsverhältnisse. Mit einer Uebersetzung der französischen Schrift: über England und die Engländer, von J. B. Say.
The rare first edition of the distinguished German economist Karl Friedrich Nebenius (1785-1857) remarks on the economic state of Great Britain during the Bank Restriction Era, including the first German translation of De l’Angleterre et des Anglais (1815) by Jean-Baptise Say (of ‘Say’s Law’ fame), the product of a three-month tour of Britain at the end 1814. A nice copy, uncut and with wide margins.
‘Nebenius was the leader of reform in Baden for nearly forty years, constructing the new constitution of the state in 1818, creating its railways, remodelling its taxation and domain-management, introducing the metrical system of weights and measures, organising the system of popular instruction, and regenerating the higher teaching, especially in the university of Heidelberg, of which he was curator. As a scientific economist he was of the school of Adam Smith, and was an advocate of free trade as the general rule in practice; but he rejected the doctrine of the absolute non-intervention of the state in the industrial world. His principal theoretical work was Der öffentliche Kredit … “perhaps”, says Roscher, “the best monograph in the whole economic literature of Germany, and certainly the most important treatise on the subject of public debts which has been written in any language”.’ (Palgrave III, 13).
