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- [PATRIOTIC COMPETITION] Patriotic competition against self-interested combination, recommended; by a union between the nobility, the landed, and independent, interest, the clergy, and consumer: with a view of reducing commodities from their money, or market, price, to their real, or labour, price. London: James Ridgway, 1800 8vo, 40pp, recently bound in calf-backed marbled boards gilt. A very good copy. A presentation copy inscribed "From the Author" in ink on title. First edition: very scarce. ESTC locates a total of only 9 libraries with copies (4 in Brit. Isles + 5 in N.America). Kress B.4251. Goldsmiths 17943. Black 2253. A powerful essay against high prices caused in great part by monopolies, commercial malpractices and other business arrangements, all of them, in the author's view, "incompatible with the general interests of society". The causes of the country's financial difficulties were "national debt and taxes; war; the abuse of the paper system; the manoeuvres of trade; and an insufficient supply of grain". (pp.9-10). He makes numerous proposals for improvements in banking and money supply as well as for regulation of trade and commerce with a view to halt inflationary pressures. Keywords :- trade, combinations, prices, monopolies Price - £250 |
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