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

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H. Holt, 1927 - 105 sider

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Side 86 - Company, and for a long time steered clear of European complications. But eventually the growing trade of England sought greater opportunities than those available under peaceful conditions. Merchants became eager for more and ever more profits. Their aggressiveness forced Walpole into a typically mercantilist expedient — a war for money. Rich possibilities of trade with the Spanish colonies greatly tempted English merchants. They desired to break through the exclusion which Spain had hitherto...
Side 110 - O'Connor). THE MAKING OF AN ORATOR. Cr. too. 6s. net. Price (LL). A SHORT HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY IN ENGLAND FROM ADAM SMITH TO ARNOLD TOYNBEE.
Side 2 - 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 aspects of commerce and in the theories underlying practice were so numerous, so pronounced and so rapid that the total...
Side 21 - They advanced the money which made 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...
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...
Side 108 - American Gold and Silver Production in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century," in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, XXIX (May, 1915) 433-479.
Side 22 - They advanced the money which made 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...
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).

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