想读《Commerce and Government》主观价值理论仅以这种分散的形式得以幸存，但也有一个重要例外，就是艾蒂安·德·孔狄亚克（Etienne de Condilac)的伟大著作——《商业与政府》（Commerce and Govermment)。此书与斯密的《国富论》同年（1776）出版印行，它在主观价值论的基础上给出了政治经济学第一个全面的公理化表述。但是，孔狄亚克的著作几乎没有什么影响，因为法国的经济学家抵制此书。孔狄亚克出版此书的时候已经是一位著名的哲学家，他并不认为遵循魁奈门生的惯例有多大必要；不只如此，他还以一种独立和原创的方式表达自己的思想—这简直是一种冒犯，事实证明，这种冒犯足以阻碍把他的著作译成英文超过两个世纪之久。
Commerce and Government [Book] Douban
author:
Abbe de Condillac
/
Etienne Bonnot
translator:
Eltis, Shelagh
publishing house:
Liberty Fund Inc.
2008
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This text covers such topics as value, money, agriculture, domestic and foreign trade, war, labour, interest rates, luxuries, and the various government policies that affect these subjects. The theme that unites these disparate subjects is liberty. As Condillac writes near the end of the work, the means to eradicate all the abuses and injustices of government is "to give trade full, complete and permanent freedom". In their preface to the 1997 edition, Shelagh and Walter Eltis wrote, "English language readers ...will find ...that the case for competitive market economics has rarely been presented more powerfully."