An Essay Upon Projects
by Daniel Defoe
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About This Book
An Essay Upon Projects (1697) was the first volume published by Daniel Defoe. It begins with a portrait of his time as a "Projecting Age" and subsequently illustrates plans for the economic and social improvement of England, including an early proposal for a national insurance scheme.Many of its issues were later revised in a series of pamphlets which were published under the nom-de-plume of Andrew Moreton. They are titled Every-body's Business, Is No-body's Business (1725), The Protestant Monastery (1726), Parochial Tyranny (1727), Augusta Triumphans (1728) and Second Thoughts are Best (1729)...
Chapters (27)
- AN Essay upon Projects.
- INTRODUCTION.
- AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
- AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION.
- The History of Projects.
- OF PROJECTORS.
- OF BANKS.
- Of the Multiplicity of Banks.
- OF THE HIGHWAYS.
- OF ASSURANCES.
- OF FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.
- Of Seamen.
- I.
- II.—FOR WIDOWS.
- THE PROPOSAL IS FOR A PENSION OFFICE.
- OF WAGERING.
- OF FOOLS.
- A CHARITY-LOTTERY.
- OF BANKRUPTS.
- A Court of Inquiries.
- OF ACADEMIES.
- Royal Academy for Military Exercises.
- Academy for Women.
- OF A COURT MERCHANT.
- OF SEAMEN.
- The Consequences of this Method.
- THE CONCLUSION.
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