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Charles Davenant's Politics and Political Arithmetic

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  • Seiichiro Ito

    (Ohtsuki City College, Yamanashi, Japan)

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Charles Davenant has often been referred to as a strident Tory pamphleteer. On the other hand, he made a number of constructive proposals mainly concerning trade and finance using political arithmetic. These two aspects of him can be comprehensively understood when his political thought is re-examined. Not only did he criticise the Modern Whig as designing ministers and flatterers, being a ‘civic humanist’, but he also insisted that the right advice, consultation and counsel by virtuous ministers result in the right decisions in policy-making, which eventually causes the prosperity of nations. By grasping his politics in this way, it becomes clear what he meant by the use of his political arithmetic. It was above all his advice for statesmen.

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  • Seiichiro Ito, 2005. "Charles Davenant's Politics and Political Arithmetic," History of Economic Ideas, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa - Roma, vol. 13(1), pages 9-36.
    • Handle: RePEc:hid:journl:v:13:y:2005:1:1:p:9-36
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    1. Seiichiro Ito, 2011. "The Ideal Statesman: The Influence of Richelieu on Davenant’s Political Thought," Chapters, in: Heinz D. Kurz & Tamotsu Nishizawa & Keith Tribe (ed.), The Dissemination of Economic Ideas, chapter 2, Edward Elgar Publishing.

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