View of the Progress of Political Economy in Europe Since the Sixteenth Century: A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1846, and Lent Term, 1847Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1847 - 298 páginas |
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... importation of foreign money , by allowing it to circulate at an advanced nominal rate . The ostensible object of restricting or prohibiting the exportation of specie , he observes , is to keep the money which flows into a country from ...
... importation of foreign money , by allowing it to circulate at an advanced nominal rate . The ostensible object of restricting or prohibiting the exportation of specie , he observes , is to keep the money which flows into a country from ...
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... importation of dressed and dyed cloths from England , and Cockaine and his company not only dyed and dressed cloths worse and dearer ( which are ever the consequences of monopolies ) than they were in Holland ; but these being ...
... importation of dressed and dyed cloths from England , and Cockaine and his company not only dyed and dressed cloths worse and dearer ( which are ever the consequences of monopolies ) than they were in Holland ; but these being ...
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... importation of English wool into Flanders would most probably have been a necessary condition for the importation of Flemish bullion into England ; but an adequate cause was wanting why Flanders should part with her gold and silver ...
... importation of English wool into Flanders would most probably have been a necessary condition for the importation of Flemish bullion into England ; but an adequate cause was wanting why Flanders should part with her gold and silver ...
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... importation of foreign manufactured goods . The combination of these two results constituted the distinguishing feature of Colbertism , according to the friends of the system . The scale of duties was at first comparatively moderate ...
... importation of foreign manufactured goods . The combination of these two results constituted the distinguishing feature of Colbertism , according to the friends of the system . The scale of duties was at first comparatively moderate ...
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... importation of manufactured goods , observes , observes , " certain raw materials augment prodigiously ( in value ) under the hand of the work- man : a pound of flax , converted into linen , doubles and trebles its price , and if ...
... importation of manufactured goods , observes , observes , " certain raw materials augment prodigiously ( in value ) under the hand of the work- man : a pound of flax , converted into linen , doubles and trebles its price , and if ...
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