Friday, November 25, 2011

Quote of the Day

Trade and Merchandilism
 
"Trade is in its nature free, finds its own channel and best directeth its own course; and all laws to give it rules and directions, and to limit and circumscribe it, may serve the particular ends of private men, but are seldom advantageous to the public."
Charles Davenant‘s 1697 
from “An essay on the East-India trade” 

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