TY  - BOOK
AU  - Defoe,Daniel
TI  - An Essay Upon Projects
AV  - PR 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Finance -- Great Britain
KW  - Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 18th century
KW  - Economics -- Early works to 1800
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Essay_Upon_Projects; Release date is 2003-05-01; Transcribed from the 1887 Cassell & Company by David Price; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "An Essay Upon Projects" by Daniel Defoe is an essay collection published in 1697. As Defoe's first published volume, it presents his vision of England as a "Projecting Age" and proposes ambitious plans for the nation's economic and social improvement. The work includes chapters on banks, highways, insurance, and academies, featuring an early proposal for a national insurance scheme. Defoe examines various aspects of English society, from bankrupts to seamen, offering moral criticism alongside practical reforms for transforming his country. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4087
ER  -