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DECKER, SIR MATTHEW

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DECKER, See also:SIR See also:MATTHEW , See also:Bart. (1679-1749), See also:English See also:merchant and writer on See also:trade, was See also:born in See also:Amsterdam in 1699. He came to See also:London in 1702 and established himself there as a merchant. He was remarkably successful in his business See also:life, gaining See also:great See also:wealth and having many honours conferred upon him. He was a director of the See also:East See also:India See also:Company, sat in See also:parliament for' four years as member for Bishops See also:Castle, and was high See also:sheriff of See also:Surrey in 1729. He was created a See also:baronet by See also:George I. in 1716. Decker's. fame as a writer on trade rests on two tracts. The first, Serious considerations on the several high duties which the Nation in See also:general, as well as Trade in particular, labours under, with a proposal for preventing the removal of goods, discharging the trader from any See also:search, and raising all the Publick Supplies by one single Tax (1743; name affixed to 7th edition, 1756), proposed to do away with customs duties and substitute a tax upon houses. He also suggested taking the See also:duty off See also:tea .and putting instead a See also:licence duty on households wishing to consume it. The second, an See also:Essay on the Causes of the Decline of the See also:Foreign Trade, consequently of the value of the lands in See also:Britain, and on the means to restore both (1744), has been attributed to W. See also:Richardson, but See also:internal See also:evidence is strongly in favour of Decker's authorship. He See also:advocates the licence See also:plan in an extended See also:form; urges the See also:repeal of import duties and the abolition of bounties, and, in general, shows himself such a strong supporter of the See also:doctrine of See also:free trade as to See also:rank as one of the most important forerunners of See also:Adam See also:Smith.

Decker died on the 18th of See also:

March 1749.

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