The Commercial Revolution, 1400-1776: Mercantilism--Colbert--Adam SmithH. Holt, 1927 - 105 sider |
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... Charters , origin and im- portance . State coinage . Capital . The 16th cen- tury rise in prices . Development of economic ideas . Influence of Calvinism . Bullionism , protectionism , the balance of trade . Mercantilism . II . COLBERT ...
... Charters , origin and im- portance . State coinage . Capital . The 16th cen- tury rise in prices . Development of economic ideas . Influence of Calvinism . Bullionism , protectionism , the balance of trade . Mercantilism . II . COLBERT ...
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... Charters , or grants of privileges or rights , had developed during the Middle Ages , especially as towns had ... charters , if they could , to escape the petty , annoying and irregular exactions of feudal lords . Charters were valuable ...
... Charters , or grants of privileges or rights , had developed during the Middle Ages , especially as towns had ... charters , if they could , to escape the petty , annoying and irregular exactions of feudal lords . Charters were valuable ...
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... charters might provide simply for trade between the company and the colony ; but when the company conceived the idea of planting a colony for the purpose of having a new place with which to trade , an entirely new and important develop ...
... charters might provide simply for trade between the company and the colony ; but when the company conceived the idea of planting a colony for the purpose of having a new place with which to trade , an entirely new and important develop ...
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Mercantilism--Colbert--Adam Smith Laurence Bradford Packard. fact , are created by charters granted by States , just as the States themselves were , in their colonial origins , sometimes the product of commercial charters granted by a ...
Mercantilism--Colbert--Adam Smith Laurence Bradford Packard. fact , are created by charters granted by States , just as the States themselves were , in their colonial origins , sometimes the product of commercial charters granted by a ...
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... Charters . A. Ballard , British Borough Charters , 1046-1216 ( 1913 ) ; C. T. Carr , Select Charters of Trading Com- panies ( 1913 ) ; G. Cawston and A. H. Keane , The Early English Chartered Companies ( 1913 ) . Towns . H. F. Brown ...
... Charters . A. Ballard , British Borough Charters , 1046-1216 ( 1913 ) ; C. T. Carr , Select Charters of Trading Com- panies ( 1913 ) ; G. Cawston and A. H. Keane , The Early English Chartered Companies ( 1913 ) . Towns . H. F. Brown ...
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Side 36 - ... relief, schools and stipends for physicians and surgeons. "National improvements" were a favorite hobby of the mercantilists. The building of bridges, the construction of canals, harbors and good roads were important assets for trade and commerce. They desired technical training to be developed for artisans. Interest on loans, they said, should be lowered and fixed at a definite sum; courts for the administration of commercial law should be improved, and the navy should be sufficiently increased...
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Side 37 - The True English Interest, or an Account of the Chief National Improvements." These writers, and many others, are representative of mercantilist thinking. Spain developed a rigorous application of mercantilist doctrines in her trade and in her control of 'colonies. No monopoly was more exclusive than that with which the Spaniards shut out all possible trade between their colonies and foreign countries. There were mercantilists in the Netherlands, Italy and Germany. In Germany mercantilists were called...
Side 36 - ... 1705 till his death in 1714. He was also secretary to the commission appointed to treat for the union with Scotland. His most important works were: Ways and Means of supplying the War (1695); An Essay on the East India Trade (1697); Two Discourses on the Public Revenues and Trade of England (1698); An Essay on the probable means of making the people gainers in the balance of Trade (1699); A Discourse on Grants and Resumptions and Essays on the Balance of Power (1701).