Josiah Child, Interest Rates, and John Lockes for a General Naturalization
Smith B.
13 September 2022Cambridge University Press
Modern Intellectual History
2022#19Issue 3661 - 680 pp.
Throughout the 1690s there were several high-profile parliamentary debates about lowering interest rates from 6 to 4 percent. Lockes involvement in these policy debates is significant. In this period, he circulated at least one important pamphlet on this issue to various Members of Parliament. The purpose of this article is to illuminate the links between Lockes arguments against interest rate reduction and immigration policy. Lockes essay For a General Naturalization (1693) employs some of the same pro-naturalization formulations that Josiah Child uses in A New Discourse of Trade (1693), a pamphlet that was ostensibly published in support of the parliamentary proposal for lower interest rates. Even though Locke had a long history with pro-naturalization arguments, the framework of his essay on naturalization is very likely an extension of those debates with Child about interest rates from 1691/2. Copyright
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