The Trade and Navigation of Great-Britain considered:

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The first Dublin edition, the second edition overall and the first to bear Gee’s name, having been first published anonymously the previous year in London. The Trade and Navigation of Great Britain Consider’d lays out Gee’s staunchly protectionist approach to British commerce. “Gee’s most famous work presented an overview of British trade both historically and by national areas, and commented on specific problems (for example devoting Chapter XXII to ‘French fashions pernicious to England’)” (ODNB). Both Hume and Adam Smith poked fun at Gee’s writing for his sensationalism, Hume attributing to him ‘universal panic’ at the picture he painted of the national debt. Despite this, Gee’s work was well-known and widely translated, with around twenty editions published before 1780. Goldsmiths’, 6737.

• Year: 1730

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