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THE FINANCE OF FOREIGN TRADE
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WRITTEN in lighter vein as an introduction to a live subject.
WE live in an age when one half the people seems to be
occupied in trading, while the other half spends its time in
writing books telling them how to trade. It was ever thus.
The traders stand ready to receive, and others eager to give
advice. Let the reader turn to any dictionary of quotations,
English or foreign, classical or Oriental, and he will
be amazed to find the plethora of material descriptive of
his calling and the wealth to be derived from it.
"
Trade,"
one will tell you,
"
is the golden foundation
"
; another will
exclaim,
"
Trade, trade, why, it is the mother of money !
"
Even Robert Louis Stevenson could not refrain from telling
us that everybody lives by selling something. So it goes
on, and though traders sometimes affect to be annoyed by
the epigrammatic way in which scribes describe their
activities, yet, in secret, they are just a little proud of the
notice they receive.
It was, we suppose, the visible progress of England as
a great trading nation that brought forth the Frenchman
Barrdre's famous gibe
WILLIAM F. SPALDING - Personal Name
1st Edition
NONE
THE FINANCE OF FOREIGN TRADE
Management
English
1956
1-254
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