id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-4785 Pieter de la Court - Wikipedia .html text/html 2651 224 64 It was in this turbulent period of De la Court's life that he published almost all of his books about the political economy of Holland and the larger Dutch Republic. De la Court's publishing activity had made him a well known protagonist of the republican "party" in contemporary Dutch politics. The book was an immediate bestseller in the Dutch Republic and went through eleven editions between 1662 and 1671. The Interest van Holland was not a philosophical disquisition, but a recipe book for political and economic success. Within the Dutch Republic the Interest van Holland became the de facto government manifesto of the republican oligarchy led by Johan de Witt until 1672. The text of the last English edition of the Interest can be downloaded from the website of the Liberty Fund: Pieter de la Court, The True Interest and Political Maxims, of the Republic of Holland (1662). Economic history of the Dutch Republic ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-4785.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-4785.txt