User talk:Andonic/Economic collapse of the Ancien Régime

This is a personal project of mine which I will move into mainspace when I believe it is sufficiently comprehensive to be an article.

Rough (pre-research) outline

 * Introduction
 * Even though France after the Thirty Years' War was one of the most powerful nations in Europe, the poorly managed economy and subsequent financial crisis became one of the primary causes of the French Revolution.
 * Origins of instability
 * Few sources of revenue
 * Cardinal Richelieu laid the foundation for the inadequate taxation system
 * French nobility was one of the least productive in Europe
 * Colbert and the rise of mercantilism
 * Plethora of economically unsound policies (to research: was there indication they were inhibiting growth?)
 * Decreased profitability in the New World
 * Wars
 * Nine Years' War
 * War of the Spanish Succession
 * War of the Austrian Succession
 * Seven Years' War
 * Age of Enlightenment
 * Philosophes' influence on government did not improve the fiscal situation
 * Louis XV's new policies
 * Decline of the Old Regime
 * Widening gap between the three Estates
 * Little Ice Age's effect on agriculture
 * Post-Revolution
 * Core economic problems were left unsolved, if not exacerbated