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Thomas Milles, c.1550-1627.

English customs official ("custumer") in who launched the "bullionist phase" of  Mercantilism. 

Thomas Milles attacked the charter corporations (esp. East India Company) for exporting precious metals overseas by their activities.  Recommended the imposition of severe restrictions on trade to particular ports and companies and a legal requirement to force foreign merchants to purchase British goods with export proceeds.  Heavily influential of Gerard de Malynes.

 

  

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Major Works of Thomas Milles

  • The Custumers Apology, 1599 [bk]
  • The Customers Replie, or second apologie, 1604 [bk]
  • The Custumers Alphabet and Primer, 1608
  • Nobilitas politica vel civilis, personas scilicet distinguendi et ab origine intergentes, 1608 [bk] (same author?)
  • The Mystery of Iniquitie, 1611

 
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Resources on  Thomas Milles

  • "Milles, Thomas" in C. Coquelin and G.U. Guillaumin, editors, 1852, Dictionnaire de l'économie politique [1864 ed.]
  • "Milles, Thomas" in L. Say and J. Chailley-Bert, editors, 1892, Nouveau Dictionnaire de l'économie politique
  • "Milles, Thomas" in R.H. Inglis Palgrave, editor, 1894-1901 Dictionary of Political Economy [1901 ed.]
  • "Milles, Thomas" in Leslie Stephen & Stephen Lee, editor, 1885-901 Dictionary of National Biography [1908-09 ed]
  • Wikipedia

 

 
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