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 woollen manufactures [electronic resource] : The balance of trade, and the nature of plantations, with 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£. 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 transference of bills of debts, are humbly offered. By Sir Josiah Child.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Child, Josiah, Sir, 1630-1699.

Standardized Title:

Discourse about trade

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Balance of trade--Great Britain.

Balance of trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4],xxxix,[1],224p. )

Edition:

A new edition.

Other Title:

New discourse of trade

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Richardson and Urquhart, under the Royal Exchange, MDCCLXXV. [1775]

Notes:

Originally published in 1690 as: A discourse about trade.

Includes "A small treatise against usury", a reprint of "A tract against usurie" by Sir Thomas Culpeper.

Reproduction of original from University of London's Goldsmiths' Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N10021.

OCLC:

507959875