A New discourse of trade, wherein is recommended several weighty points relating to companies of merchants, the act of navigation, naturalization of strangers and our wollen manufactures. The ballance of trade, and the nature of plantations, and their consequences in relation to the Kingdom, are seriously discussed. Methods for the employment and maintenance of the poor are proposed. The reduction of interest of money to 4 l. per cent. is recommended. And some proposals for erecting a court of merchants, for determining controversies relating to maritime affairs, and for a law for transferring of bills of debts, are humbly offered
- Författare
- Josiah Child
- Språk
- Engelska
Förlag | År | Ort | Om boken | ISBN |
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1698 | Storbritannien, London, printed and sold by T. Sowle, next door to the Meeting-house in White-Hart-Court in Gracious Street, and at the Bible in Leaden-Hall Street, near the Market, 1698 | [46], 238 sidor. 8:o |