The Term "Favorable Balance of Trade"

Frank Whitson Fetter

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1935, vol. 49, issue 4, 621-645

Abstract: I. Use of the term by American economists, 621.— II. Origin of "favorable" and "unfavorable" as applied to "balance of trade," 622. — III. Meaning of "balance of trade" in Mercantilist writings, 624. — IV. New terminology of Harris and Steuart, 626.— V. The views of Adam Smith, 628.— VI. The Bullion Controversy, 630.— VII. English usage since the Bullion Controversy, 635.— VIII. Use of the term in America to 1870, 639.— IX. Changes in American usage since 1870; Conclusions, 641.

Date: 1935
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.2307/1885402 (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:49:y:1935:i:4:p:621-645.

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://academic.oup.com/journals

Access Statistics for this article

The Quarterly Journal of Economics is currently edited by Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, Andrei Shleifer and Stefanie Stantcheva

More articles in The Quarterly Journal of Economics from President and Fellows of Harvard College
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Oxford University Press ().