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An Enquiry into the Extent of and Stability of National Resources

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  • Thomas Chalmers, detail from an oil painting by Sir John Watson Gordon, c. 1837; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
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    In An Enquiry into the Extent of and Stability of National Resources (1808) he argued that Napoleon’s policy of continental blockade, far from ruining British trade, would merely cut off certain luxuries and turn to other, perhaps better, uses the funds that had supplied those luxuries.…

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