Mercantilism and the East India Trade: An Early Phase of the Protection V. Free Trade Controversy |
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... MONOPOLY : Why the Company's joint stock and monopoly were hated ; significance of the struggle ; the " Free Trade " Bills ; the Company's defence ; its opponents Sec . IV THE PROTECTIONIST CONTROVERSY : the new phase of Mercantilism ...
... MONOPOLY : Why the Company's joint stock and monopoly were hated ; significance of the struggle ; the " Free Trade " Bills ; the Company's defence ; its opponents Sec . IV THE PROTECTIONIST CONTROVERSY : the new phase of Mercantilism ...
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... monopoly ; nevertheless they were original Sec . IV - THE LINEN DRAPERS ' DEFENCE OF FREE TRADE : Their controversy with Cary ; the cheap Indian calicoes more profitable to the kingdom than German linen ; the cleavage between the ...
... monopoly ; nevertheless they were original Sec . IV - THE LINEN DRAPERS ' DEFENCE OF FREE TRADE : Their controversy with Cary ; the cheap Indian calicoes more profitable to the kingdom than German linen ; the cleavage between the ...
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... monopoly of trade with distant territories . Trade was also fostered by navigation laws calculated to increase shipping , by the discouragement of harmful trades , and by a series of minute regulations in which the paternal State ...
... monopoly of trade with distant territories . Trade was also fostered by navigation laws calculated to increase shipping , by the discouragement of harmful trades , and by a series of minute regulations in which the paternal State ...
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... monopoly of the whole trade with extensive territories in the East , and by virtue of this monopoly excluded others from trading with those countries . There were also other minor charges against the East India 6 MERCANTILISM AND THE ...
... monopoly of the whole trade with extensive territories in the East , and by virtue of this monopoly excluded others from trading with those countries . There were also other minor charges against the East India 6 MERCANTILISM AND THE ...
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... monopoly did , in fact , greatly influence economic history inasmuch as the modern economic system of competition and free enterprise owed much to the protracted opposition against the Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ...
... monopoly did , in fact , greatly influence economic history inasmuch as the modern economic system of competition and free enterprise owed much to the protracted opposition against the Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ...
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According arguments attack balance became Bill Books British brought bullion calico-printing calicoes called carried Cary cause century cheap Child chintz classes cloth Commerce Commissioners commodities Company's concerned considered controversy cotton Davenant Defoe demand Directors duty early East India Company East India Trade economic effect employed England English exportation fashion foreign trade France free trade French Government Holland House imported increase industry interests Journal King kingdom labour ladies land Letter linen linen drapers London Lords manufactures means mercantilism merchants monopoly muslins nature Office pamphlets Parliament party passed period petition pieces pointed political poor present printed printers profitable prohibited prosperity protective quantities question reason Record sent seventeenth century ships silk soon sort Spitalfields stuffs took treasure various wanted wear weavers whole women wool woollen writers wrote
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Page 78 - That the whole world as to trade is but as one nation or people, and therein nations are as persons." "That the loss of a trade with one nation is not that only, separately considered, but so much of the trade of the world rescinded and lost, for all is combined together.
Page 13 - the actions of the husbandman in the seed-time, when he casteth away much good corn into the ground, we shall account him rather a madman than a husbandman. But when we consider his labours in the harvest, which is the end of his endeavours, we shall find the worth and plentiful increase of his actions.
Page 30 - Nor was this all, but it crept into " our houses, our closets, and bedchambers ; curtains, cushions, chairs, and at last " beds themselves were nothing but calicoes or Indian stuffs, and in short almost " everything that used to be made of wool or silk, relating either to the dress of the "women or the furniture of our houses, was supplied by the Indian trade.
Page 28 - twould a saint provoke" (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke), " No, let a charming chintz, and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead— And, Betty, give this cheek a little red.
Page 15 - ... all men do consent that plenty of mony in a Kingdom doth make the native commodities dearer, which as it is to the profit of some private men in their revenues, so is it directly against the benefit of the Publique in the quantity of the trade; for as plenty of mony makes wares dearer, so dear wares decline their use and consumption...
Page 115 - East Indies, and all calicoes, painted, dyed, printed or stained there, which are or shall be imported into this kingdom shall not be worn or otherwise used in Great Britain ;, and all goods imported after that day, shall be warehoused and exported again.
Page 26 - This trade (the woollen) is very much hindered by our own people, who do wear many foreign commodities instead of our own ; as may be instanced in many particulars ; viz. instead of green sey...
Page 79 - Trade is in its nature free, finds its own channel, and best directeth its own course: and all laws to give it rules and directions, and to limit and circumscribe it, may serve the particular ends of private men, but are seldom advantageous to the public.
Page 13 - For if we only behold the actions of the husbandman in the feed-time when he casteth away much good corn into the ground, we will rather accompt him a mad man than a husbandman: but when we consider his labours in the harvest which is the end of his endeavours, we find the worth and plentiful encrease of his actions.