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William Petty

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Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.


— William Petty


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A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.


— William Petty


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An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.


— William Petty


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Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.


— William Petty


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I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.


— William Petty


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Money is the best rule of commerce.


— William Petty


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No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.


— William Petty


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That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.


— William Petty


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The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.


— William Petty


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Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.


— William Petty


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Did you know about William Petty?

As Hobbes had centered on peace Petty chose prosperity. Further restrictions 'would do us twice as much harm as the losse of our said Trade' (p. 113)

What is striking about these passages is his intellectual rigour which put him far ahead of the mercantilist writers of earlier in the century.

He developed efficient methods to survey the land that was to be confiscated and given to Cromwell's soldiers. Sir William Petty FRS (26 May 1623 – 16 December 1687) was an English economist scientist and philosopher.

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