@article{622047, recid = {622047}, author = {Child, Josiah,}, title = {A new discourse of trade wherein are recommended. Several weighty points; Relating to Companies of merchants. The act of navigation, naturalization of strangers, and our Woollen manufactures. The balance of trade, and nature of plantations; with their consequences, in relation to the kingdom, are seriously discussed. Methods for the employment and maintenance of the poor are proposed. The reduction of interest of money to 4 l. per cent. is recommended. And some proposals for erecting a court of merchants, for determining controversies relating to maritime affairs, and for a law for transferring of bills of debts, are humbly offered. By Sir Josiah Child, baronet. To which is added, A small treatise against usury, by the same author. [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {printed and sold by Robert and Andrew Foulis,}, address = {Glasgow :}, pages = {xxix,[1],184p ;}, year = {1751}, note = {Originally published in 1690 as: A discourse about trade.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/622047}, }