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Josiah Tucker: A Selection from His Economic and Political Writings

Autor Josiah Tucker Introducere de Robert Livingston Schuyler
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2021
Josiah Tucker (17131799) was one of the foremost thinkers of eighteenth-century England in the fields of economics, international relations, political theory, and imperialism. He shared the opinion, prevalent in his day, that Great Britain was underpopulated and observed with regret the immigration to America, believing that the colonies brought Britain no benefits. He thought instead that colonies were too costly to be beneficial, and, as early as 1749, he asserted that the American colonies would seek independence as soon as they no longer needed Great Britains assistance. He is one of the few men in England who consistently wrote and preached that the separation of the colonies would spell the ruin of England. Born of Welsh peasant stock in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Tucker was educated at St. Johns College, Oxford, and became a curate and rector successively at St. Stephens Church in Bristol. This led him to take considerable interest in politics and trade, as Bristol was second only to London in commerce in Great Britain during Tuckers years of residence there. During the greater portion of a long life, he poured out a succession of pamphlets on these matters. He was appointed dean of Gloucester in 1758. He died in 1799 and was buried in Gloucester Cathedral. This edition (originally published by Columbia University Press in 1931) contains seven of Tuckers writings, two of which are of special economic interest: The Elements of Commerce and Theory of Taxes and Instructions for Travelers. In the former selection, Tucker denounces monopoly in all its forms, yet he occupies an intermediate position between the rigid exclusiveness of mercantilism and the freedom of trade of Adam Smith. While he departs from Smith in some ways, it is often said that Tuckers work anticipates the classic doctrines of the Wealth of Nations, which was written twenty years later. Other writings in the volume include a remarkable tract on war, which illustrates progressive, pacifistic thought; and a treatise on civil government, written to refute the contract theory of the state. Tucker disposed of the fallacy that one nation could thrive only at the expense of another and condemned going to war for the sake of trade advantages. The original introduction, by Columbia history professor Robert Livingston Schuyler, places Tuckers writings in their historical and biographical setting and emphasises what seems most significant in his thought as an economist, a pacifist, an anti-imperialist, and a political theorist. Throughout the writings in this book, Tucker reveals with striking clearness the process of internal disintegration of the mercantilist doctrine during the eighteenth century, even before Hume and Smith had provided an acceptable substitute.
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ISBN-13: 9780865979291
ISBN-10: 0865979294
Pagini: 584
Dimensiuni: 155 x 230 mm
Greutate: 1.07 kg
Editura: Liberty Fund Inc.
Colecția Liberty Fund Inc. (US)

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Josiah Tucker (1713-1799) was one of the foremost thinkers of eighteenth-century England in the fields of economics, international relations, political theory, and imperialism. Tucker corresponded with Kames, Hume, Turgot, and Townshend, and he read and wrote widely, gaining a reputation as an able writer and thinker in both politics and commerce.