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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 de la Ley Agraria (1795, Report on the Agrarian Law). Informe de la Ley Agraria is a major work of political economy as well as a beautifully crafted philosophical history of Spain’s political development until the eighteenth century.
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Introduction: Liberty (Libertad), Knowledge (Luces)...
The Life and Career of Jovellanos
The Contexts and Reception of Jovellanos’s Informe
Between Practical Politics and Philosophical History: An Outline...
Report On The Agrarian Law (1795)
The Historical Development of Our Agriculture
The Influence of Legislation on the Development of Agriculture
Laws Should Limit Themselves to Agriculture’s Protection
This Protection Should be Limited to the Removal of the...
[on the] Convergence of the Object of the Laws with that of Self-Interest
[on the need to] Investigate the Obstacles that Oppose said Interest
Political Obstacles, or those Derived from Legislation
2nd. Municipal lands [Tierras concejiles]
3rd. The openness of lands [La apertura de las heredades]
The usefulness of enclosures
4th. Partial protection of cultivation
6th. Mortmain tenures [La amortización]
2nd. Civil: mayorazgos [primogeniture entail]
7th. Circulation of agricultural produce
On fixed prices [De las posturas]
On general domestic trade
1st. Of agricultural products
8th. On taxes examined in relation to agriculture
Moral Obstacles, or Those Derived from Opinion
1st. On the part of the government
2nd. On the role of agriculture’s agents
3rd. Means of removing both [obstacles]
1st. The instruction of the propertied classes
2nd. The instruction of farmers
3rd. The creation and use of technical manuals
Physical Obstacles, or those Derived from Nature
1st. Neglect of irrigation
2nd. Absence of proper communication
[Transportation] by water
3rd. Lack of commercial seaports
Means of removing physical obstacles
1st. Improvements with respect to the kingdom as a whole
2nd. Improvements with respect to the provinces in particular
3rd. Improvements with respect to municipalities
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Report on the Agrarian Law' (1795) and Other Writings
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