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Anonymous

Not a prolific, long-lived author who wrote a myriad of tracts in the course of several centuries. Just a list of major unsigned works in the history of economics, whose authors have not yet been established. (some tentative attributions)

 

  


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Major Works of Anonymous

1500-1600

  • Polices to reduce this Realme of Englande into a prosperus wealthe and estate, 1549
  • Memorandum prepared for the royal commission on the exchanges, 1564
  • A Discourse of Corporations and intollerable injuries and dignities, which are offered to his Majesties subjects in the goverment of theise bodies politique were contrarie to all policie and judgment, c.1587

1600-1650

  • A Discourse consisting of Motives for the Enlargement and Freedome of Trade especially that of Cloth and other Woollen Manufactures, 1645 [by a Company of Private Men who stile themselves Merchant Adventurers].

1650-1700

  • A True Relation of the Rise and Progress of the East-India Company, shweing how their Manufactures have been, are, and will be prejudicial to the Manufactures of England; and whatEndeavours have been used for and against any Restriction. Together with some Remarks thereon, [ reprint. in 1748 A Collection of scarce and valuable tracts, v.4] (no date)
  • A View of the Greenland Trade and Whale-Fishery. With the National and Private Advantages therof, 1662, Henry Elking [reprint in 1748 A Collection of scarce and valuable tracts, v.4]
  • Omnia comesta a bello. Or, an Answer out of the West to a Question out of the North, 1667
  • Et à dracone: or, some reflections upon a discourse called Omnia à belo comesta, 1668
  • Interest of Money Mistaken, Or, A Treatise Proving that the Abatement of Interest is the Effect and Not the Cause of the Riches of a Nation: And that Six Per Cent is a Proportionable Interest to the Present Condition of this Kingdom 1668 [attrib. by Cassel (1903) to Thomas Manley?] - Copy
  • A Treatise of Wool and Cattel, In a Letter Written to a Friend, Occasion'd Upon a Discourse Concerning the Great Abatements of Rents and Low Value of Lands : Wherein is Shewed how Their Worth and Value May be Advanced by the Improvement of the Manufacture of Our English Wool, and the Spending of, &c., 1677 [attrib to George Clarke?] - copy
  • Reasons for a Limited Exportation of Wooll, and in opposition to the principle of prohibiting the exportation of wool., 1677 - copy
  • The Ancient Trades Decayed, Repaired Again, Wherein are Declared the Several Abuses that Have Utterly Impaired All the Ancient Trades in the Kingdom : with Many Proposals Humbly Offered how the Same May be Repaired Again : with Some Reason Shewing the Necessity Thereof, 1678 [by "Countrey trades-man"] - copy
  • Englands Interest or the great benefit to trade by banks or offices of credit in London, &c., 1682 [attrib. to Robert Verney?] - copy
  • Several Objections Sometimes Made Against the Office of Credit Fully Answered, c.1682. [attrib. to Hugh Chamberlen?] - copy
  • Taxes No Charge: In a Letter from a Gentleman, to a Person of Quality, Shewing the Nature, Use, and Benefit of Taxes in this Kingdom, and Compared with the Impositions of Foreign States : Together with Their Improvement of Trade in Time of War, 1690 [attrib. to Daniel DeFoe?] - copy
  • The linnen and woollen manufactory discoursed, with the nature of companies and trade, 1691, reprinted in J. Smith, Chronicon rusticum-commercial, 1747 - copy
  • A Discourse Concerning the East-India Trade, c.1692, as reprinted in Somer's Tracts, 1813.
  • An Essay upon Taxes, Calculated for the Present Juncture of Affairs in England, 1693, Marquis of Halifax  [reprint in 1748 A Collection of scarce and valuable tracts, v.4]
  • A Discourse of the Nature, Use and Advantages of Trade : Proposing some considerations for the promotion and advancement thereof, by a registry of lands. Preventing the exportation of coyn. Lowering the interest of money. Inviting foreign families into England, 1693 [attrib. to Josiah Child? -  copy]
  • The Interest of England Considered in an Essay Upon Wooll, Our Woollen Manufactures, and the Improvement of Trade: With Some Remarks Upon the Conceptions of Sir Josiah Child, 1694 [attrib. to John Blanch or James Puckle ?] - copy
  • An Essay Towards Carrying on the Present War Against France and Other Publick Occasions: As Also for Paying Off All Debts Contracted in the Same, Or Otherwise : and New-coyning of All Our Moneys, Without Charge to the Great Encrease of the Honour, Strength and Wealth of the Nation, 1697 [attrib. to  John Blackwell? or William Keith? 1729?] - copy
  • England's Advocate, Europe's Monitor: Being an Intreaty for Help in Behalf of the English Silk-weavers and Silk-throsters : Shewing Their Misery, and the Cause Thereof, and what Will Only Cure Both Them and the Evils England's Trade Groans Under, and Other English Manufacturers, from the Like, 1699, [by A.N.] - copy
  • Et à dracone: or, some reflections upon a discourse called Omnia à belo comesta, 1668.
  • Interest of money mistaken, 1668.
  • A treatise of wool and cattel, 1677.
  • Reasons for a limited exportation of wooll, n.p., 1677.
  • The ancient trades decayed, repaired again, 1678.
  • Englands interest or the great benefit to trade by banks or offices of credit, 1682.
  • Several objections sometimes made against the office of credit, fully answered, n.p., n.d., (ca. 1682).
  • Taxes no charge: in a letter from a gentleman, to a person of quality, 1690.
  • The linen and woolen manufactory discoursed, [1691], in John Smith, Chronicon rusticum-commercial, 1747, I, 383–88.
  • A discourse concerning the East-India trade, [ca. 1692], in somers' tracts, 2d ed., X (1813), 634–47.
  • A discourse of the nature, use and advantages of trade, 1693.
  • The interest of England considered: in an essay upon wooll, 1694.
  • An essay towards carrying on the present war against France, [ca. 1697], in The Harleian miscellany, X (1810), 371–89.
  • N., A., England's advocate, Europe's monitor, 1699.

1700-1750

  • The Circumstances of Scotland Consider'd, with Respect to the Present Scarcity of Money: Together with Some Proposals for Supplying the Defect Thereof, and Rectifying the Ballance of Trade, 1705. [attrib. to John Clerk?] - copy
  • Remarks Upon the Bank of England: With Regard More Especially to Our Trade and Government. Occasion'd by the Present Discourse Concerning the Intended Prolongation of the Bank, 1705, [ By a Merchant of London, and a True Lover of Our Constitution][attrib. to John Broughton? or Charles Davenant?] - copy
  • Reasons Offer'd Against the Continuance of the Bank: In a Letter to a Member of Parliament, 1707 [attrib. to Joseph Addison?] - copy
  • Some Queries, Humbly Offer'd to the Consideration of Both Houses of Parliament, Relating to the Bank of England, 1707 [by A True Admirer or the Queen] - copy
  • A Short View of the Apparent Dangers and Mischiefs from the Bank of England: More Particularly Address'd to the Country Gentlemen, 1707 - copy
  • The Vindication and Advancement of Our National Constitution and Credit: Attempted in Several Tracts, 1710 [attrib. to John Broughton? or Charles Davenant?] - copy
  • The taxes not grievous, and therefore not a reason for an unsafe peace, 1712
  • Torism and trade can never agree, c.1713
  • The British Merchant, 1713. [3rd ed., 1748]

To sort:

  • A brief state of the question between the printed and painted calicoes, and the woolen and silk manufacture, 2d ed., 1719.
  • Considerations occasioned by the bill for enabling the South Sea Company to increase their capital stock, 1720.
  • Some thoughts on the interest of money in general, and particularly in the publick funds, n.d. (ca.1720).
  • Proposals for restoring credit; for making the Bank of England more useful and profitable, 1721.
  • Some considerations on the nature and importance of the East-India trade, 1728.
  • An enquiry into the melancholy circumstances of Great Britain, n.d.(ca 1730).
  • The present state of Ireland consider'd, Lonodn reprint, 1730.
  • Reflections and considerations occasioned by the petition ... for taking off the drawback on foreign linens, &c., 1738.
  • “On the neglect of trade and manufactures,” Scots magazine, II (1740), 475–77.
  • A letter to the ... Lords Commissioners of trade and platations, wherein the grand concern of trade is asserted, 1747.
  • The manufacturer's plea for the bounty on corn at exportation, 1754.
  • An inquiry concerning the trade, commerce, and policy of Jamaica, relative to the scarcity of money, Jamaica, 1759.
  • “Imparatial essay concerning the nature and use of specie and paper-credit in any country,” Scots magazine, XXIV (1762), 133–35.
  • “Considerations relating to the late order of the two banks,” Scots magazine, XXIV (1762), 39–41, 89–94.
     

1800-1900

 

  • Sketches on Political Economy, illustrative of the interests of Great Britain: intended as a reply to Mr. Mill's pamphlet Commerce Defended, with an exposition of some leading tenets of the Economists, 1809 (proto-marginalist work first discovered by Seligman (1903); attributed by some to Granville Sharp; we attribute it more probably to Scottish-Irish writer Walter Thom)
  • The Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties, 1821 (a Ricardian socialist)
  • "Review of W.S. Jevons's Theory of Political Economy", Saturday Review, 11 November 1871, p.624-5. (Criticized incomplete treatment of competition in Jevons's TPE)

 


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