Political essays on the nature and operation of money, public finances, and other subjects : published during the American war, and continued up to the present year, 1791

Political essays on the nature and operation of money, public finances, and other subjects : published during the American war, and continued up to the present year, 1791

Philadelphia : Printed and sold by J. Crukshank ..., 1791.

viii, 504 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)

L2012F156 1791

(OCoLC)01683644

Signatures: pi4 A-3R4.
Collected works of a political economist of the period who was often consulted by members of Congress on finance & taxation.
Contents: An essay on the danger of too much circulating cash in a state -- An essay on free trade and finance -- A second essay on free trade and finance -- A third essay on free trade and finance -- A fourth essay on free trade and finance -- A fifth essay on free trade and finance -- Strictures on tender-acts -- An essay or humble attempt to examine and state the true interest of Pennsylvania with respect to the paper currency -- An essay on the economy, policy, and resources of the thirteen states, and the means of their preservation -- A dissertation on the nature, authority, and uses of the office of a financier-general -- Remarks on the resolution of council, of the 2d of May, 1781, for raising the exchange to 175 continental dollars for 1 hard -- Strictures on a publication in the Freeman's journal of May 16, 1781, signed Timoleon -- Strictures on two publications in the Freeman's journal of May 30, 1781, signed, Phocion, and Impartial.
Contents: A dissertation on the political union and Constitution of the thirteen United States -- A sixth essay on free trade and finance -- A seventh essay on free trade and finance -- A plea for poor soldiers -- A review of the principles and arguments of the two foregoing essays -- An essay on the seat of the federal government and the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress over a ten mile district --Remarks on the address of sixteen members of the Assembly of Pennsylvania to their constituents, dated Sept. 29, 1787 -- The weaknesses of Brutus exposed -- An essay on credit -- Strictures on the net produce of the taxes of Great-Britain in the year 1784 -- An essay on test-acts imposed with penalties -- An essay on the extent and value of our western unlocated lands -- Scales of depreciation of continental money -- A chronological table of remarkable events.
Modern bookplate: Wm. H. Mills' library.

Evans 23972
Howes, W. U.S.iana (2d ed.) W 211

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