Nicholas Barbon, The Complete Works: Economics, Trade, Building and Insurance

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Nicholas Barbon, The Complete Works: Economics, Trade, Building and Insurance contains each of the six previously inaccessible works authored by Barbon: A Discourse Shewing the Great Advantages that New-buildings and the Enlarging of Towns and Cities do Bring to a Nation (1678); A Letter to a Gentleman in the Country, Giving an Account of the Two Insurance - Offices; the Fire-Office & Friendly-Society (1684); An Apology for the Builder: or a Discourse Shewing the Cause and Effects of the Increase of Building (1685); A Discourse of Trade (1690); An Answer to Paper Entituled, Reasons against Reducing Interest to Four per Cent (1694); and A Discourse Concerning Coining the New Money lighter. In Answer to Mr. Lock's Considerations about raising the Value of Money (1696).Nicholas Barbon (c.1640 - c.1698) was a political, social and economic theorist, a speculative builder, a pioneer of insurance services, an innovative financier and banker, and a member of parliament. His works on economics and trade, particularly A Discourse of Trade (1690), have been prasised by John Maynard Keynes and Joseph Schumpeter.