The Commercial Revolution, 1400-1776: Mercantilism--Colbert--Adam SmithH. Holt, 1927 - 105 sider |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-5 av 20
Side 4
... seen that , as a technical expression has it , there was no money econ- omy in the Middle Ages , and the facilities for trans- acting business on any scale beyond the purely local were almost entirely lacking . With the coming of the ...
... seen that , as a technical expression has it , there was no money econ- omy in the Middle Ages , and the facilities for trans- acting business on any scale beyond the purely local were almost entirely lacking . With the coming of the ...
Side 14
... seen , both the manner in which trade was carried on and the ideas or theories about trade . The effect was , in fact , revolutionary . Trading companies were perhaps the most tangible evidence of this revolution . The new , large ...
... seen , both the manner in which trade was carried on and the ideas or theories about trade . The effect was , in fact , revolutionary . Trading companies were perhaps the most tangible evidence of this revolution . The new , large ...
Side 16
... seen , really provided for any very far - reaching change in the method of trading , nor did they provide effectively for those needs which the larger opportunities demanded . There was neither permanence in the venture , nor any ...
... seen , really provided for any very far - reaching change in the method of trading , nor did they provide effectively for those needs which the larger opportunities demanded . There was neither permanence in the venture , nor any ...
Side 22
... seen his firm pay a fifty - four per cent dividend for the preceding sixteen years . " Large amounts of money to be handled , a growing system of credit and the increasing financial obliga- tions of governments which constantly became ...
... seen his firm pay a fifty - four per cent dividend for the preceding sixteen years . " Large amounts of money to be handled , a growing system of credit and the increasing financial obliga- tions of governments which constantly became ...
Side 26
... seen , helped to clear the way for the search for economic principles . Calvinism pro- vided , in a sense , a sort of moral justification for think- ing about matters which had formerly been ignored as worldly . Prominent among the ...
... seen , helped to clear the way for the search for economic principles . Calvinism pro- vided , in a sense , a sort of moral justification for think- ing about matters which had formerly been ignored as worldly . Prominent among the ...
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
The Commercial Revolution, 1400-1776: Mercantilism--Colbert--Adam Smith Laurence Bradford Packard Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1927 |
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
18th century activities Ages agriculture America amount appeared balance banking became began beginning British bullion called capital carried cause changes charters cities Colbert collected colonies commerce Commercial Revolution commodities companies contributions created desired developed devoted Dutch duties East economic effect England English especially established Europe European existence export extensive fact favorable feudal foreign France freedom French gain gilds gold granted growth History ideas important improved increased India individuals industry interests investment Italy king land laws Louis XIV manufacturing materials means medieval Mediterranean mercantilism mercantilist merce merchants natural Navigation necessary needs Netherlands opportunities organized paid perhaps period political ports possessed possible practice prevent privileges produced profits protection reduced regulations rich royal secure seen ships South Sea Spain Spanish strong theories things tion town trade wealth West
Populære avsnitt
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).