Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 2 of 2 records

Total number of records: 2

Count of Subject

SubjectCount
excise tax1
tariff1
taxation1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Decker, Sir Matthew (1679-1749)2
Decker, George1
Richardson, William1

Archive Print Item

An essay on the causes of the decline of the foreign trade : consequently of the value of the lands of Britain, and on the means to restore both

Decker, Sir Matthew (1679-1749); Richardson, William; Decker, George

1750

Attributed to Sir Matthew Decker; also attributed by Adam Smith and Sinclair to George Decker, and by Chalmers to William Richardson.

More details


Archive Print Item

Serious considerations on the several high duties which the nation in general (as well as its trade in particular) labours under : with a proposal for preventing the running of goods, discharging the trader from any search, and raising all the publick supplies by one single tax

Decker, Sir Matthew (1679-1749)

1743

Attributed to Sir Matthew Decker by NUC pre-1956 and J.R. McCulloch, 'The literature of political economy', p. 329. Indexed in: Kress 4650, but without any mention of the half-title. Another edition...

More details