Rare first edition of this award-winning dissertation on the active encouragement of industry and commerce, written by a Hanoverian civil servant and prolific author on insurance, mathematics and political economy. Guden proves to be a very open-minded author on economics, quoting Voltaire, Hume and John Locke, as well as comparing the state of the economy in Germany with the developments in Britain, France and Switzerland. A rare, and under-researched book on political economy and monetary theory, written in a lively and poignant style.

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