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In addition to its value as a mine of dependable source material for the economic historian, this collection of Coxe's essays and addresses expounds his theories of economic development. An ardent supporter of development of the merchant marine by navigation acts and of manufacturing by a protective tariff, Coxe has also been called the father of the American cotton industry because he was one of the first to urge upon the South cultivation of cotton as a staple. "Comes near to actually being a systematic treatise." J.A. Schumpeter History of Economic Analysis