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DAVENANT, CHARLES (1656-1714) , English economist, eldest son of Sir William Davenant, the poet, was born in London, and educated at Cheam grammar school and Balliol College, Oxford
parliament successively for St Ives, Cornwall
Great
commissioner
Scotland . As an economist, he must be classed as a strong supporter of the mercantile theory, and in his economic pamphletsas distinct from his political writingshe takes up an eclectic position, recommending governmental restrictions on colonial commerce as strongly as he advocates
change at home . Of his writings, a complete edition of which was published in London in 1771, the following are the more important:An Essay on the East
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