Joseph Massie

Joseph Massie (? - 1782) are an English economist who wrote about fifteen lampoons treating of commercial and financial questions. Though probably less important than of the authors like James Steuart or Josiah Tucker, it belongs to these British intellectuals who contributed to the formation of the political economy before Adam Smith.

As much of the authors of treaties of political economy at the XVIIIe century, Joseph Massie is implied neither in the marketing activity, nor in the policy. It is an amateur of antiquities having a collection of economic treaties including/understanding nearly 1500 titles, published between 1557 and 1763. It is by using this collection, as well as contemporary commercial statistics, which he writes some fifteen booklets treating of subjects varied like town planning, trade or the taxation (it is interested in particular, like all the economists of its time, with the problem of the national debt during the Guerre Seven Year old.)

One can find the list of the booklets and lampoons published by Joseph Massie on English Short Title Catalog of British Library.

And for more information on the British economists of the XVIIIe century before Adam Smith, to see " Managing the Great Machine off Trade" , in KOEHN (Nancy F.), The Power off Trade , London & Ithaca: Cornell University Near, 1994.

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