The Commercial Revolution, 1400-1776: Mercantilism--Colbert--Adam Smith

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H. Holt, 1927 - 105 sider

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Side 2 - Renaissance was active; its aspects were eagerness to learn, curiosity, criticism, and enthusiasm for adventure and invention. It is the economic changes of this period 1400 to 1700 which are described by the term Commercial Revolution. Changes are always going on, of course, in commerce as well as in social and political affairs; revolutions are perhaps as frequent in one as in another. But between 1400 and 1700 changes in methods of conducting business, in trading centers, in shipping, in the financial...
Side 36 - I its economic interests and toward making itself strong. The state has fully absorbed the responsibilities assumed by the governments of the medieval towns and cities in their elaborate regulations for the welfare of the trade and craft gilds. In fact, it has been pointed out — "mercantilism was the policy of the town writ large in the affairs of the state," and it has also been said that mercantilism was a "political policy with an ^economic basis.
Side 22 - Albrecht of Brandenburg Archbishop of Mainz ; repaid themselves by sending their agent to accompany Tetzel on his campaign to raise money by indulgences and taking half the proceeds; provided the funds with which Charles V bought the imperial crown, after an election conducted with the publicity of an auction and the morals of a gambling hell ; browbeat him, when the debt was not paid, in the tone of a pawnbroker rating a necessitous client; and found the money with which Charles raised troops to...
Side 46 - I believe that agreement is fixed upon the principle that it is only the abundance of money in a state that determines its greatness and power.
Side 21 - ... advanced the money to Albrecht of Brandenburg, which made him Archbishop of Mainz, sent his agent to accompany Tetzel on his financial campaign to raise money by indulgences and took half the proceeds in payment of the debt; provided the funds with which Charles V bought the imperial crown after an election conducted with the publicity of an auction and the morals of a gambling hell...
Side 25 - The search for economic principles, stimulated by the Commercial Revolution, developed and broadened medieval conceptions. Ecclesiastical prohibitions were gradually swept away by the march of events. In both theory and practice the world became much more materialistic. The possibility of making ever more profit and of accumulating capital overcame religious scruples and spiritual interests. Then too occurred the great Protestant revolt against the Roman Church. This split in Christian unity added...
Side 63 - Colbert created a merchant marine and a navy which could hold their own in numbers, personnel and ability with the sea power of England or Holland. The eighteen or twenty first-line men-of-war constituting the...
Side 36 - England's Interest and Improvement" advocating an "increase of store and trade" by stimulating manufacturing and by preventing the export of bullion. Charles Davenant (1656-1714) wrote an "Essay on the Probable Means of Making the People Gainers in the Balance of Trade," and was a strong supporter of the restrictions on colonial trade. In 1668 Edward Chamberlayne in "England's Wants or Several Proposals Probably Beneficial for England...
Side 37 - THE TRUE ENGLISH INTEREST: or, An Account of the Chief National Improvements; in some Political Observations, Demonstrating an Infallible Advance of this Nation to Infinite Wealth and Greatness, Trade and Populacy, with Imployment, and Preferment of all Persons.

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