‘The Cause of Ye Wast of the Silver or Bullion of England’: A New Document from Thomas Mun’s Age
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology
ISBN: 978-1-78560-960-2, eISBN: 978-1-78560-959-6
Publication date: 23 July 2016
Abstract
A hitherto unknown manuscript from the 1620s, whose only extant copies appear to be in Dublin, shows the balance of trade being forcefully developed, without the concern for the East India Trade that marks Thomas Mun. It goes on to consider economic and monetary policy, particularly the relative valuation of gold and silver, more closely.
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Acknowledgements
I am deeply grateful to the Mccarthy Fellowship of Marsh’s Library for the support that led to the discovery of this manuscript and wish to give my grateful thanks to the Library and its staff for their continual help. Marja Smolenaars, Maureen Mulvhill, 17th C specialist with the Princeton Research Forum, Princeton, and Mary Beth de Filippis, curator of the show on a 17th C Dutch merchant, Margrieta van Varick at Bard Gallery, NYC, for Munter. Mark Rankin of James Madison university taught me that ‘Sacke is a Spanish sweet wine that was popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth century’. Carlos Suprinyak has done significant new work on the economic thought of this era and provided useful comments. Geoffrey Ross of the History library at the University of Illinois was very helpful with getting me online copies of manuscripts at the British Library. Two anonymous referees made some very useful and constructive suggestions.
Citation
Rashid, S. (2016), "‘The Cause of Ye Wast of the Silver or Bullion of England’: A New Document from Thomas Mun’s Age", Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Vol. 34A), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 375-401. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0743-41542016000034A011
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