Josiah Tucker: A Selection from His Economic and Political Writings

Josiah Tucker was one of the foremost thinkers of eighteenth-century England in the fields of economics, international relations, political theory, and imperialism. In his introduction, Robert Livingston Schuyler writes: Tucker was one of the first . . . to envisage the whole range of economic life as a proper and worthy subject of scientific inquiry . . . , [which] ought to be cultivated as such, especially by statesmen and legislators. This opinion he expressed as early as 1749, before an...