Excerpt from Money and Trade Considered: With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation With Money, First Published at Edinburgh 1705
There 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.
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