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Sir Josiah Child’s Economic Writings

In: Authorship Puzzles in the History of Economics

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  • D. P. O’Brien

    (University of Durham)

  • A. C. Darnell

    (University of Durham)

Abstract

The main problem discussed in this chapter is the supposed authorship of a work defending the East India Company, the author of which gives his name as ‘Philopatris’.1 It is called A Treatise Wherein is Demonstrated, I. That the East-India Trade is the most national of all foreign trades; II. that the clamors … against the present East-India Company are sinister, selfish, or groundless ….2 A number of authorities have attributed this to Sir Josiah Child who was an important, and at times dominant, figure in the company from 1673 until his death in 1699.3 The pamphlet was originally attributed to Child by Charles King in The British Merchant of 1721,4 and this attribution was endorsed by McCulloch, who considered that the style was the same as that of a work which had appeared with Child’s name on its title page, A New Discourse of Trade.5 W. R. Scott also seems to have believed that the work was by Child.6 Viner considered that it was by Child,7 and Chaudhuri, the outstanding contemporary authority on the East India Company, also takes this view.8

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  • D. P. O’Brien & A. C. Darnell, 1982. "Sir Josiah Child’s Economic Writings," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Authorship Puzzles in the History of Economics, chapter 3, pages 31-62, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-05697-2_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-05697-2_3
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