Report on the Agrarian Law' (1795) and Other Writings

Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, Paquette Gabriel, Álvaro Caso Bello, Gabriel Paquette

• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781783086290
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781783086313
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Economic History
• Index: History

"Report on the Agrarian Law" (1795) and Other Writings' is the first modern English translation of perhaps the greatest work of the Spanish Enlightenment, Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos's 'Informe sobre la Ley Agraria' (1795). A major work of political economy and a beautifully crafted philosophical history of Spain's political development until the eighteenth century, 'Informe sobre la Ley Agraria' is a classic work of the Spanish Enlightenment. Displaying the richness of Spanish Enlightenment writing on political economy emerging from a fecund conjugation of foreign writers (Smith, Ferguson, Condillac, Mirabeau, Genovesi) with Spanish writers (Ulloa, Olavide, Uztáriz, Campomanes), this masterpiece explores the lessons learned from the shortcomings of the Spanish Crown's economic policies in the eighteenth century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Information
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Editors’ Biographies
• Note on the Text
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Liberty (Libertad), Knowledge (Luces) and Reform (Auxilios) in the Economic and Political Thought of Jovellanos: Jovellanos, the Bourbon Reforms and the Spanish Enlightenment
• Report on the Agrarian Law (1795)
• On The Need to Combine the Study of History and Antiquities With the Study of Law
• Eulogy in Praise of Charles III: Madrid, 8 November 1788
• Inaugural Address to the Royal Asturian Institute: Gijón (Asturias), 7 January 1794
• On the Need to Combine the Study of Literature With the Study of the Sciences: Gijón (Asturias) 1797
• Index