---- Steve Doerr <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> A couple of earlier examples of the phrase 'fiscal policy' in quotations in the OED itself:
> a.. s.v. 'dumper': 1903 Daily Chron. 24 Oct. 5/2 They would not have supported the fiscal policy of Mr. Chamberlain, for they were 'dumpers', who sold shoes to the poor below cost-price.
> b.. s.v. 'preferentiate': 1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 565/1 We must have a fiscal policy and a tariff suited to the occasion before we can preferentiate, differentiate, or retaliate.
http://books.google.com/books?id=-4JHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22fiscal+policy%22&dq=%22fiscal+policy%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1805&as_brr=0&cd=7
Edinburgh Review vol. 7 1805
"In all his fiscal policy he was an anxious observer of the balance of trade..."
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Tom Ikins
The Roman Map of Britain
http://www.romanmap.com
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