ROUX, Vital.

Analyse historique de l'établissement du crédit public en France.

Paris, Galerie de Bossange père, Librairie de Bossange frères, 1824. 8vo, pp. [iv], 234, with 6 folding tables; a fine copy, clean and bright, in the original printed wrappers, some wear at extremities, MS shelfmark to front cover. First edition: a discussion of the economic benefits enjoyed by France since the Napoleonic Wars thanks to new methods employed in running public finances, ‘parce que c’est dans les faits et les discussions mêmes qu’on retrouvera les éléments constitutifs d’un bon système de crédit’ (p. 3).Vital Roux (1760–1846) was a visionary entrepreneur. In 1819, he established the world’s first school of management, a kind of business school providing special instruction for young people who had finished their academic studies and intended to pursue a career in commerce and industry. Roux’s school, the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, still exists today as the ESCP-EAP “European School of Management”, with branches in Paris, Oxford, Madrid and Berlin.Kress C.1330; not in Einaudi or Goldsmiths’.

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