The Economic Interpretation of History: (lectures Delivered in Worcester College Hall, Oxford, 1887-8)

Adam Smith agriculture alleged ancient Arthur Young assessment Bank of England British called capital causes cent charge colonies competition Corn Laws cost course Crown estate currency custom debt doubt Dutch duty early economical economists effect eighteenth century employer English Europe exceedingly exchange experience exports fact farmer fifteenth century Flanders foreign France freight French give gold grants Henry Henry VIII imports income industry interest king labour laissez faire land landowners lecture levied liabilities loans Lollards London Lord manufacture means ment merchants nation paid Parliament perhaps persons political poor practice principle produce profit protection Protectionist purchase railways reason reign rent revenue secure seignorage seventeenth century silver sole market statute Statute of Labourers supply Tandridge taxation tenant tion towns trade United Kingdom wages wealth Whigs workmen