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incompatible with the concept of balanced trade and naval commerce, as<br />

the interests of diVerent nations will always be mutually exclusive. In extremis<br />

the diVerences will lead to war, which by deWnition damages the<br />

trade balance of all combatants. Justi gives a detailed introduction to the<br />

principles that characterise international trade, i.e. the proper balance between<br />

free enterprise and state intervention. He concludes with an interesting<br />

chapter on the trade of neutral powers in time of war, one of the basic<br />

principles of international law.<br />

Goldsmiths’–Kress 9482.4; Humpert 10090; OCLC records copies at Harvard,<br />

the University of Wisconsin and Keio University.<br />

Balance between State Intervention and Free Enterprise<br />

160 JUSTI, Johann Heinrich Gottlob von. Die Grundfeste zu<br />

der Macht und Glückseeligkeit der Staaten; oder ausführliche Vorstellung<br />

der gesamten Policey-Wissenschaft. Königsberg und<br />

Leipzig, Joh. H. Hartung, 1760, 1761. £3200<br />

Two volumes, 4to, pp. [xxiv], 782, with Wve folding plates; [xvi], 651;<br />

woodcut head and tail-pieces and initials; some light browning, due to<br />

paper quality; entirely uncut in contemporary pale blue beech boards,<br />

gilt-lettered spine label to spines, gilt supralibros to upper boards; a<br />

little chipped, and corners bent; from a Swedish noble library.<br />

First edition, uncommon, of Justi’s important comprehensive handbook of<br />

cameralistic science, in particular public policy – his blueprint for the welfare<br />

state. In it Justi presented a strikingly modern view of the proper balance<br />

between free enterprise and state intervention. While he championed<br />

the welfare state, and accepts the state’s responsibility for the moral and<br />

economic conditions of life, in particular for everyone’s employment and<br />

livelihood, he stopped short of advocating excessive state intervention. He<br />

was aware of the inherent logic of economic phenomena, and attempted to<br />

limit government interference in price and interest rate Wxing. Justi ‘saw the<br />

practical argument for laissez-faire not less clearly than did A. Smith, and his<br />

bureaucracy, while guiding and helping where necessary, was always ready<br />

to eVace itself when no guidance or help seemed needed. Only he saw much<br />

more clearly than did the latter all the obstacles that stood in the way of its<br />

working according to design... (Schumpeter, p. 172). In his Grundfeste he<br />

devotes much attention to government statistics, population and subsistence,<br />

manufacturing industry and commerce, with the second volume concentrating<br />

more on public and civic administration, including insurance,<br />

Wre services, poor law etc.<br />

Einaudi 3103; Goldsmiths’–Kress 9637.4; Humpert 8496; Menger c 50; RLIN<br />

lists copies at Michigan, Princeton, and New York Public Library.<br />

susanne schulz-falster rare books catalogue ten<br />

161 JUSTI, Johann Heinrich Gottlob von. Die Natur und das<br />

Wesen der Staaten, als die Grundwissenschaft der Staatskunst, der<br />

Policey und aller Regierungswissenschaften, desgleichen als die<br />

Quelle aller Gesetze. Berlin, Stettin und Leipzig, Joh. H. Rüdigers,<br />

1760. £3000<br />

8vo, pp. xiv, 488, [32] index; woodcut head and tail-pieces and initials;<br />

contemporary full sheep, spine in compartments, gilt-lettered spine<br />

label; head of spine repaired; a very clean and crisp copy from the<br />

Donaueschingen Library.<br />

First edition of Justi’s most explicit treatise on political philosophy. ‘An advocate<br />

of enlightened despotism... he uses the postulate of the general happiness<br />

to provide an ethical foundation for the welfare state and explains the<br />

formation of the state by the social contract, entered into when the instinct<br />

for self-preservation impelled men to renounce their freedom.’ In his work<br />

he combines the tendencies of the mechanistic and rationalistic school represented<br />

by WolV and Pufendorf with the more organic ideas of<br />

Montesquieu. In his treatise he also intended to show that ‘all the sciences<br />

embraced in the general sense of the term ‘cameralism’ are deductions from<br />

a fundamental political philosophy (Small, p. 400).<br />

Higgs 2415; Masui p. 916; Menger, c. 51; uncommon NUC, RLIN and OCLC<br />

list copies at Harvard, Chicago, and Columbia.

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