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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

banned to encourage the industry at home. Indeed, Daniel Defoe and Charles Davenant, among others, particularly Whig economists, had seen distilling as...

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...

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...

political ramifications of empiricism, including Bernard de Mandeville, Charles Davenant, and Adam Smith. All of these figures can be considered empiricists...

of goods instead of its assets. Charles Davenant In 1696 British mercantilist Tory Member of parliament Charles Davenant (1656–1714) published Essay on...

surviving until 1750 in a state of much reduced activity. In 1709 Charles Davenant published Reflections upon the Constitution and Management of Trade...

include John Locke, Cicero, Livy, Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Charles Davenant, Edmond Halley, Isaac Newton, Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, and Jean...

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...

Bodin Jean Baptiste Colbert Josiah Child William Petty John Locke Charles Davenant Dudley North Ferdinando Galiani James Denham-Steuart The Physiocrats...

by Thomas Shadwell; music by Matthew Locke Circe (1677) libretto by Charles Davenant; music by John Banister The Lancashire Witches and Tegue O'Divelly...

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...

popular toward the middle of the 17th century, popularized especially by Charles Davenant. The laissez-faire attitude was especially common with Physiocrats...

cast included John Henderson as Lord Davenant (a part written for him), William Thomas Lewis as Charles Davenant, Richard Wroughton as Captain Dorner...

good friend from the 1690s. Other friends among English Whigs were Charles Davenant, Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, Walter Moyle, William Stephens and John...

Partha Dasgupta (born 1942), Bangladeshi/British development economist Charles Davenant (1656–1714), English mercantilist and politician Paul Davidson (born...

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...

義太夫), Japanese jōruri chanter and playwright (born 1651) November 7 – Charles Davenant, English economist (born 1656) December 15 – Silvester Jenks, English...

September 14 – Thomas Baker, English antiquary (died 1746) November 17 – Charles Davenant, English economist (died 1714) January 19 – Godfrey Goodman, English...

5 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (b. 1633) November 7 – Charles Davenant, English economist, politician and pamphleteer (b. 1656) November 8...

imperial ideology. However political economists Nicholas Barbon and Charles Davenant in the late 17th century emphasized the significance of commerce, especially...

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...

used in the masques produced for and by the court of Charles I.[citation needed] In William Davenant's Salmacida Spolia (1640), the last of the court masques...