Two Tracts on Civil Liberty, the War with America, and the Debts and Finances of the Kingdom / With a General Introduction and Supplement

Published by the same Author , And printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand.
I. Observations on Reversionary Payments; on Schemes for providing Annuities for Widows, and Persons in Old Age; on the Method of calculating the Values of Assurances on Lives; and on the National Debt. To which are added, Four Essays on different Subjects in the Doctrine of Life-Annuities and Political Arithmetic. Also, an Appendix, containing a complete Set of Tables; particularly four New Tables, shewing the Probabilities of Life in London, Norwich, and Northampton, and the Values of two joint Lives.
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TWO TRACTS ON CIVIL LIBERTY, THE WAR with AMERICA, AND The DEBTS and FINANCES of the KINGDOM: WITH A General Introduction and Supplement.
By RICHARD PRICE, D.D. F.R.S.
LONDON, Printed for T. CADELL, in the Strand. MDCCLXXVIII.

The first of the following tracts was published in the beginning of the year 1776; and the second in the beginning of last year. They are now offered to the public in one volume, with corrections and additions. All the calculations, in the Appendix to the first tract, have been transferred to the second and fourth sections, in the third part of the second tract.

Richard Price
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2018-09-24

Темы

United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Causes; Finance, Public -- Great Britain -- History -- 1688-1815; Finance, Public -- France -- History -- To 1789

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