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This classic work provides a detailed analysis of the economic policies implemented by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the finance minister under King Louis XIV of France. The author challenges conventional wisdom regarding the effectiveness of interventionist economic policies and argues that Colbert's policies were instrumental in laying the foundation for France's economic and political dominance in the 18th century.
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