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The Collected Works of Josiah Tucker

By Josiah Tucker

  • Published: 1993
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780415083065
  • Set ISBN: 9780415083065

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Economics and Social Policy I

Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
  • A Brief Essay on Trade.
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      Prelims
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      The Introduction.
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      The principal Advantages of France with respect to Trade.
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      The Principal Disadvantages of France with regard to Trade.
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      The principal Advantages of Great Britain with respect to Trade.
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      The principal Disadvantages of Great Britain with regard to Trade.
  • Certain Proposals: For remedying many of the above-mentioned Inconveniencies; and encreasing the Trade and Credit of Great Britain.
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      I
      Proposal: To alter the Qualification of Voting, and to Introduce a Just Subordination Among the People
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      II
      Proposal: To erect Certain Courts in all Manufacturing Places of the Kingdom
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      III
      Proposal: To incorporate both the British Isles together, and to make one Kingdom in all Respects, as to Parliament, Trade and Taxes
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      IV
      Proposal: After such an Union of the two Kingdoms, as above proposed, To lay by Degrees the English Taxes upon Ireland
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      V
      Proposal: To set up Woollen and Silk Manufactures in the West of England, and South-West of Ireland
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      VI
      Proposal: Viz. To Jay open and extend our narrow and restrained Companies; beginning with the Turky and Hudson’s Bay Companies, which hurt the Trade of Great Britain more essentially with respect to France, than any other Company can do
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      VII
      Proposal: To Encourage Foreign Merchants and Tradesmen to Settle Among Us, by a General Naturalization Act for All Protestants
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      VIII
      Proposal: To encourage a Trade with our own Plantations, in all such Articles as shall make for the mutual Benefit of the Mother Country, and her Colonies
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      IX
      Proposal: To establish a Police for the Prevention of Smuggling
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      X
      Proposal: To invite Foreigners of Distinction to travel among Us
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      XI
      Proposal: To cut some Canals between our great Towns of Trade, for the Conveniency and Cheapness of Carriage
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      XII
      Proposal: To raise a Fishery on the Northern Coast of Scotland, by giving a double Premium for some Years, till the Trade is sufficiently established, for all Herrings caught and cured by Persons residing within certain Districts, and exported to foreign Markets
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      XIII
      Proposal: To establish Civil Governments at Gibraltar and Port-Mahone, and make them Free Ports
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      XIV
      Proposal: To have Publick Inspectors Into All our Manufactures
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      XV
      Proposal: To alter the Method of collecting our Duties upon particular Sorts of Goods imported
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      XVI
      Proposal: To lay certain Taxes on the following Articles of Luxury, Vice, or Extravagance
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      Conclusion.
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      An Appendix Containing a Plan for raising One only Tax on the Consumers of Luxuries
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      An Extract from Page 44, &c. of the Essay on the Causes and Decline of the Foreign Trade.
  • Reflections on the Expediency of Opening the Trade to Turky.
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      Reflections On the Expediency of Opening the Trade to Turky.
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      An Appendix to the second Edition of the foregoing Pamphlet.