John Wheeler (died 1617) was an English businessman under the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. Between 1601 and 1608 he was secretary of the Merchants Adventurers of England, an international trading company. In this capacity, he wrote and published in 1601 A Treatise of Commerce, considered both an early example of corporate publicity and "a manifesto of economic nationalism, [...] domestic monopolies and protectionist policies vis-à-vis foreign traders for the power and prestige of the nation".[1]
He is often confused with, but different from, the John Wheeler who was Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth in the Parliament of 1604–1611.
References
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- Wheeler, John (1601). A Treatise of Commerce. unknown publisher. ISBN 1-58477-395-2.
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 60. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Wauchope, Piers (2004). "Wheeler, John (d. 1617)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29188. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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