@article{598220, note = {Preface signed: D.F., i.e. Daniel Defoe.}, author = {Defoe, Daniel,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/598220}, title = {Essays upon several projects: or, effectual ways for advancing the interest of the nation. Wherein are plainly laid down, The Means by which the Subjects in general may be eased and enriched; the Poor relieved, and Trade encreased in the most material Branches of it, viz. in Constituting Seamen to theirs and the Nations Advantage, for Encouragement of Merchants and Merchandizing; for Relief of the Poor of Friendly Societies; for discouraging Vice, and encouraging Vertue; the Usefulness; of Banks and Assurances; to prevent Bankrupts; with the surest way to recover bad Debs; and many other considerable things, profitable and conducing to the great Advantage of the Nation in general [electronic resource].}, publisher = {printed, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster,}, recid = {598220}, pages = {[2],xiv,336p. ;}, address = {London :}, year = {1702}, }