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Page viii - This is the clearest and justest method of determining the balance between nation and nation : for though a difference in the value of the respective commodities may make some difference in the sum actually paid to balance accounts, yet the general principle, that...
Page 57 - Therefore we must deny our own people the benefit of trading, because they are advantageously situated for carrying it on. This is a weighty argument; Bristol, for instance, is better situated for the Irish trade than London; therefore let us Londoners petition, that the port of Bristol may be locked up.
Page 56 - ... consolidated together. But, allowing it to be called a distinct kingdom at present, till it is united, so is Yorkshire a distinct county, and was formerly, in the times of the Heptarchy, a kingdom...
Page vi - ... that nation in favour of the other. And the science of gainful commerce principally consists in the bringing this single point to bear. Now there can be but one general method for putting it in practice; and that is...
Page vi - This is spoken with respect to the -ultimate balance of trade. For in reference to the intermediate balance, it doth not always hold true. A trade may be beneficial to the nation, where the imports exceed the exports, and consequently the balance paid in specie, if that trade, directly or indirectly, is necessary for the carrying on of another more profitable and advantageous. But then it is to be observed, this trade is not beneficial considered in itself, but only as it is relative and subservient...
Page 53 - Guardians of the Morals of the Manufacturing Poor." By precept, inducement, and punishment, the poor would be transformed into a national asset. One of the rewards was to be "a good book...
Page 91 - Principle alone will contribute more to the preferving of the Dependency of our Colonies upon their Mother Country, than any other Refinement or Invention. For if we are afraid, that one Day or other they will revolt, and fet up for themfelves, as fome feem to...
Page 78 - English manufactures, where an exclusive company would export but_/Jve thousand; it is for the general good of the country, that he should do it. And all trade ought to be laid free and open, in order to induce the exporters to rival each other ; that the publick may obtain this general good by their competitorship. But if they cannot afford to export...
Page 55 - would run away with our trade ! Who would run away with it? or where •would they run to? Why truly our own people," (he is speaking of the Irish) "our own countrymen, who may as justly be called so, as the inhabitants of any neighbouring county, would perhaps carry some part of a manufacture from us to themselves.1 But what detriment would this be to the public?
Page 84 - ... because they damp the spirit of industry, frugality and emulation. A manufacturer who knows that no foreigner dares come in to be a competitor against him, thinks himself privileged to be idle.
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| Title | A Brief Essay on the Advantages and Disadvantages which Respectively Attend France and Great Britain: With Regard to Trade. With Some Proposals for Removing the Principal Disadvantages of Great Britain. In a New Method. By Josiah Tucker, ... Eighteenth century collections online Issue 8811 of Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature 1450-1850 Making of the modern economy |
| Author | Josiah Tucker |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | T. Trye, 1753 |
| Original from | University of Lausanne |
| Digitized | 7 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 168 pages |
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