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The Use and Abuses of Money, And the Improvements of it, First edition of this often-cited polemic on the economic policies of Charles II. In the late 1600s, following decades of military and economic competition with Holland, the Whig faction began to highlight the size of the English trade deficit with France and the consequent flow of English currency across the channel.The anonymous author of Use and Abuses similarly decries the French trade deficit, while advocating some highly unusual criticisms of self-interest: "a self-end, or particular interest, of some private persons, cannot possibly consist with the general Interest of a whole Nation" (p. [v]).

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