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    Charles Davenant (1656 – 1714) was an English economist, Tory politician and pamphleteer who sat in the Parliament of England representing the parliamentary...
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  • for Eye Charles Davenant (1656–1714), English economist, son of William Davenant Ralph Davenant (fl. 1680), English clergyman William Davenant (c. 1606–1668)...
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    William Davenant (baptised 3 March 1606 – 7 April 1668), also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright. Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was...
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    use of the term cited in the Oxford English Dictionary is from 1695. Charles Davenant, in An Essay upon Ways and Means of Supplying the War, wrote, "The...
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    during warfare between the Dutch and the English between 1652 and 1674. Charles Davenant developed the method further in 1695. The modern concept of GDP was...
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    mistake in the 1620s, and point to their followers Josiah Child and Charles Davenant, who in 1699 wrote, "Gold and Silver are indeed the Measures of Trade...
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    elasticity of demand. The famous law of demand was first stated by Charles Davenant (1656-1714) in his essay, "Probable Methods of Making People Gainers...
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    was a theatre company chartered by King Charles II at the start of the Restoration era, 1660. Sir William Davenant was manager of the company under the patronage...
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    banned to encourage the industry at home. Indeed, Daniel Defoe and Charles Davenant, among others, particularly Whig economists, had seen distilling as...
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  • Material from his manuscripts appeared in the writings of his friend Charles Davenant and—a century later—in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (Book I, Chapter...
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    debatable Home counties. The earliest use of the term is from 1695. Charles Davenant, in An essay upon ways and means of supplying the war, wrote, "The...
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    political ramifications of empiricism, including Bernard de Mandeville, Charles Davenant, and Adam Smith. All of these figures can be considered empiricists...
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    of goods instead of its assets. Charles Davenant In 1696 British mercantilist Tory Member of parliament Charles Davenant (1656–1714) published Essay on...
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    Bodin Jean Baptiste Colbert Josiah Child William Petty John Locke Charles Davenant Dudley North Ferdinando Galiani James Denham-Steuart The Physiocrats...
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    Royal African Company (category Charles II of England)
    surviving until 1750 in a state of much reduced activity. In 1709 Charles Davenant published Reflections upon the Constitution and Management of Trade...
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  • include John Locke, Cicero, Livy, Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Charles Davenant, Edmond Halley, Isaac Newton, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, and Jean...
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    Circe is a 1677 tragedy by the English writer Charles Davenant. It was first staged by the Duke's Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London. The play's...
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    Peace of Utrecht (category Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor)
    state and concept of a balance of power. First mentioned in 1701 by Charles Davenant in his Essays on the Balance of Power, it was widely publicised in...
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  • by Thomas Shadwell; music by Matthew Locke Circe (1677) libretto by Charles Davenant; music by John Banister The Lancashire Witches and Tegue O'Divelly...
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    popular toward the middle of the 17th century, popularized especially by Charles Davenant. The laissez-faire attitude was especially common with Physiocrats...
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    and the World She Lived In (1866), Poems (1867), The Draytons and the Davenants (1867), Songs Old and New (1882), and Conquering and to Conquer/The Diary...
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    good friend from the 1690s. Other friends among English Whigs were Charles Davenant, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Walter Moyle, William Stephens and John...
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  • Partha Dasgupta (born 1942), Bangladeshi/British development economist Charles Davenant (1656–1714), English mercantilist and politician Paul Davidson (born...
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    cast included John Henderson as Lord Davenant (a part written for him), William Thomas Lewis as Charles Davenant, Richard Wroughton as Captain Dorner...
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  • September 14 – Thomas Baker, English antiquary (died 1746) November 17 – Charles Davenant, English economist (died 1714) January 19 – Godfrey Goodman, English...
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  • 義太夫), Japanese jōruri chanter and playwright (born 1651) November 7 – Charles Davenant, English economist (born 1656) December 15 – Silvester Jenks, English...
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    5 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (b. 1633) November 7 – Charles Davenant, English economist, politician and pamphleteer (b. 1656) November 8...
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    in William Davenant's 1640 "Salmacida Spolia". She was also a patron of English composer Nicholas Lanier, and was responsible for Davenant being appointed...
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    other. The by-election in 1763, when Buckinghamshire's brother-in-law Charles Hotham was re-elected after being appointed to a position in the Royal...
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  • Crowne – The Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian, Parts 1 and 2 Charles Davenant – Circe (a "semi-opera" with music by John Banister) Thomas d'Urfey...
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