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The Trade and Navigation of Great-Britain Considered (Reprints of Economic Classics)
The Trade and Navigation of Great-Britain Considered - Reprints of Economic Classics Author:Joshua Gee In his extensive, strongly protectionist discussion of England's foreign trade, Gee made a number of proposals for government regulation of trade and manufacturing directed principally to finding "effectual ways for employing the poor." Gee further argued that high domestic commodity prices would induce workers to increase their supply of labor ... more »leading to higher incomes and also higher discretionary consumption expenditures. "Gee's descriptive essays exhibited an understanding of the interdependence of economic activities and processes." The New Palgrave« less