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    19th Century · English

    A Select Collection of Early English Tracts on Commerce

    John Ramsay McCulloch (ed.)

    A Select Collection of Early English Tracts on Commerce, by John Ramsay McCulloch (ed.) (1789–1864), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.

    Chapters
    77
    Variants
    77
    Genre
    Economics
    Difficulty
    Advanced

    Chapters

    1. 01Preface.prose
    2. 02Brief Notes directing to the seueral parts which are handled in the Answeres made to the foure Obiections against the Eaprose
    3. 03Preface, The Answere.prose
    4. 04Preface, The Answere. (2)prose
    5. 05Preface, The Answer.prose
    6. 06Preface, The Answer. (2)prose
    7. 07To the Right Honourable the Lords and COMMONS IN THE High Court of PARLAMENT now assembled.prose
    8. 08To The Reader.prose
    9. 09To the Right Honourable THOMAS EARL OF SOUTH-HAMPTON, Lord High Treasurer of England, Lord Warden of the New Forrest, Knprose
    10. 10The Arguments.prose
    11. 11Chap. I.: The Qualities which are required in a perfect Merchant of Forraign Trade.prose
    12. 12Chap. II.: The means to enrich this Kingdom, and to encrease our Treasure.prose
    13. 13Chap. III.: The particular ways and means to encrease the exportation of our commodities, and to decrease our Consumptioprose
    14. 14Chap. IV.: The Exportation of our Moneys in Trade of Merchandize is a means to encrease our Treasure.prose
    15. 15Chap. V.: Forraign Trade is the only means to improve the price of our Lands.prose
    16. 16Chap. VI.: The Spanish Treasure cannot be kept from other Kingdoms by any prohibition made in Spain.prose
    17. 17Chap. VII.: The diversity of gain by Forraign Trade.prose
    18. 18Chap. VIII.: The enhansing or debasing our Moneys cannot enrich the Kingdom with treasure, nor hinder the exportation thprose
    19. 19Chap. IX.: A Toleration for Forraign Coins to pass currant here at higher rates then their value with our Standard, willprose
    20. 20Chap. X.: The observation of the Statute of Imployments to be made by strangers, cannot encrease, nor yet preserve our Tprose
    21. 21Chap. XI.: It will not increase our treasure to enjoyn the Merchant that exporteth Fish, Corn or Munition, to return allprose
    22. 22Chap. XII.: The undervaluing of our Money which is delivered or received by Bills of Exchange here or beyond the Seas, cprose
    23. 23Chap. XIII.: The Merchant who is a mere Exchanger of money by Bills cannot increase or decrease our treasure.prose
    24. 24Chap. XIV.: The admirable feats supposed to be done by Bankers and the Merchants Exchange.prose
    25. 25The admirable feats to be done by Exchange.prose
    26. 26Chap. XV.: Of some Excesses and evils in the Commonwealth, which notwithstanding decay not our Trade nor Treasure.prose
    27. 27Chap. XVI.: How the Revenues and Incomes of Princes may justly be raised.prose
    28. 28Chap. XVII.: Whether it be necessary for great Princes to lay up store of Treasure.prose
    29. 29Chap. XVIII.: How much Treasure a Prince may conveniently lay up yearly.prose
    30. 30Chap. XIX.: Of some different effects, which proceed from Naturall and Artificiall Wealth.prose
    31. 31Chap. XX.: The order and means whereby we may draw up the ballance of our Forraign Trade.prose
    32. 32Chap. XXI.: The conclusion upon all that hath been said, concerning the Exportation or Importation of Treasure.prose
    33. 33Samuel Fortrey, Englands Interest and Improvement, To the Reader.prose
    34. 34The Contents of This Dialogue, The Author to his Book.prose
    35. 35The Contents of This Dialogue, The Preface.prose
    36. 36The Introduction.prose
    37. 37Section I.: Trade National or Private, Home or Forreign Treasures Imported by Trade, thence Land-Rents, Populacy increasprose
    38. 38Sect. II.: The several kinds of Forreign Trade, of trading with Home or Forreign Navigation, some general Application.prose
    39. 39Sect. III.: Of Forreign Trade consisting in Exportation, of the advantages of home Manufactures, and Manufactures, incidprose
    40. 40Sect. IV.: Of Forreign Trade from Port to Port, the Nature and Advantage of it, differs from meer Carriage, and meer Impprose
    41. 41Sect. V.: That our Home and Forreign Market is Incumbered, and prejudiced by extraordinary and unequal Charges, and Clogprose
    42. 42Sect. VI.: Other Cloggs on our Trade, viz. The late Acts of Navigation, which, with the other difficulties, have begot Mprose
    43. 43Sect. VII.: Forreigners eased in Trade; Other clogs and difficulties upon ours; Want of populacy, incidently of extream prose
    44. 44Sect. VIII.: That a Nation may grow poor by Forreign Trade, viz. by an excess of meer Importations, illustrated by some prose
    45. 45Sect. IX.: That a Consumptive Trade must render a Nation still weaker and weaker: How far the meer establishment of Absoprose
    46. 46Sect. X.: Further presumptions of our late National Overballance in Trade; an Account from the Mint in November 75. and prose
    47. 47Sect. XI.: Particular decays in our Exportations, and the beneficial parts of our Trade; Instances in the decay of our Fprose
    48. 48Sect. XII.: Instances in late Increases and Excesses of our Forreign Importations, and therein of the Decay of some otheprose
    49. 49Sect. XIII.: That a Considerable part of our late Treasure is exhausted: Application to our Publick and Private Revenuesprose
    50. 50Sect. XIV.: People and Treasure the true Pillars of the National strength: The Odds in the different Vse and imployment prose
    51. 51The Contents, The Preface.prose
    52. 52A Discourse Concerning the Abatement of INTEREST.prose
    53. 53A Discourse of Coyned Money.prose
    54. 54Postscript. Upon farther Consideration of the Foregoing Matters, I think fit to add the following Notes.prose
    55. 55The Contents, To the Reader.prose
    56. 56Chap. I.: The Objections against the East-India Trade; viz. The Exportation of Bullion for Manufactures to be consum’d iprose
    57. 57Chap. II.: The Exportation of Bullion for Indian Manufactures, is an exchange of less for greater Value.prose
    58. 58Chap. III.: A more Open East-India-Trade, is more profitable to the Kingdom.prose
    59. 59Chap. IV.: The East-India Trade does not so much diminish the Riches of some private Persons, as it increases the Richesprose
    60. 60Chap. V.: The East-India Trade is the way to Increase our Bullion.prose
    61. 61Chap. VI.: The East-India Trade must increase our Exportations.prose
    62. 62Chap. VII.: Notwithstanding the idleness of the Mint, the Money and the Bullion are increas’d.prose
    63. 63Chap. VIII.: The increase of Paper Money is to be ascrib’d to the increase of real Money, rather than the apparent plentprose
    64. 64Chap. IX.: The Kingdom is not more impoverish’d by the Consumption of Indian than of English Manufactures.prose
    65. 65Chap. X.: The East-India Trade destroys no imployment of the People which is profitable to the Kingdom.prose
    66. 66Chap. XI.: The East-India Trade is the most likely way to inlarge the business in the present Manufactures.prose
    67. 67Chap. XII.: By being the cause of the Invention of Arts and Engines, of order and regularity in our Manufactures, the Eaprose
    68. 68Chap. XIII.: The East-India Trade is the most likely way to set on foot new Manufactures for imployment of the People.prose
    69. 69Chap. XIV.: The East-India Trade does not abate the Rents, by the exportation of Bullion, by the diminution of Consumersprose
    70. 70Chap. XV.: The Importation of Indian Manufactures abates only the price of Labour, but raises the price of the Produce oprose
    71. 71Chap. XVI.: And this is confirm’d by Examples.prose
    72. 72Chap. XVII.: The East-India Trade does not abate the Rents of the Landholder by destroying his Monopoly.prose
    73. 73Chap. XVIII.: The Fishing-Trade is not so profitable as the importation of Irish Cattel, or of Indian Manufactures; and prose
    74. 74Chap. XIX.: The Herring-Fishery not practicable in the present Circumstances of England; the Dutch can sell cheaper.prose
    75. 75Chap. XX.: The way to bring England to be contented with as little profit in the Fishing-Trade as Holland.prose
    76. 76Chap. XXI.: That the way to enable England to catch and cure their Herrings as cheap as Holland, is, first to have Materprose
    77. 77Chap. XXII.: The way to make English Labour in the Fishing-Trade as cheap as that of Holland; that the People here must prose