Money and Trade Considered: With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation With Money, First Published at Edinburgh 1705 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Money and Trade Considered: With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation With Money, First Published at Edinburgh 1705There are several proposals offer'd to remedy the difficulties the nation is under from the great scarcity of money.That a right judgment may be made, which will be most safe, advantageous and practicable; it seems necessary, 1. that the nature of money be inquired into, and why silver was used as money preferable to other goods. 2. that trade be considered, and how far money affects trade. 3. that the measures have been used for preserving and increasing money, and these now proposed, be examined.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.