A new discourse of trade : wherein are recommended several weighty points relating to companies of merchants, the Act of navigation, naturalization of strangers and our woolen manufactures, the balance of trade, and nature of plantations, with their
A new discourse of trade : wherein are recommended several weighty points relating to companies of merchants, the Act of navigation, naturalization of strangers and our woolen manufactures, the balance of trade, and nature of plantations, with their...
Publisher:
Richardson and Urquhart, the Royal Exchange
Published:
01/1775
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
15540135561
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Seller's Description:
Very Good. Bound in contemporary leather. Hardcover. [4], xxxix, 224 p. 16 cm. Clean, unmarked pages. Some rubbing to cover, front board starting. Includes "A small treatise against usury", a reprint of "A tract against usurie" by Sir Thomas Culpeper. A classic merchantilist work. Child discusses 17th century Dutch trade policy (as the Dutch were a dominate commercial power of the time) and the commercial aspects of expanding colonies. Child also advocated a limited interest of 4% to encourage the competitive prowess of English merchants. Bowyer 7 (The Library, ser. 5, XI (1956), 95-102); Carpenter V(4), Goldsmiths 3486; Kress 2070; Wing C 3862; see Joyce O. Appleby, Economic thought and ideology in seventeenth-century England, pp. 88-95,