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Josiah Tucker was an economist and political writer, and also dean of Gloucester. He was born at Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, perhaps of peasant origin, or perhaps the son of a minor official. His first published work was an attack on Methodism . He made his name as an economist with ''A Brief Essay on the Advantages and Disadvantages, which Respectively Attend France and Great Britain'' (1749). It was translated into French and may have influenced the later French Physiocrats (''economistes]]''). He has been suggested as a source of Smith's ideas, though this is disputed. He is linked to Adam Smith in the Times Obituary Of Adam Smith . In the 1750s, Tucker supported for the full story.) Tucker argued with both Edmund Burke and John Wilkes over attitudes to Britain's American colonies and took a distinctive position on the American War Of Independence . As early as 1766, he thought a separation inevitable. But he was also hostile to the Americans. He wrote several interesting pamphlets, including ''A Series of Answers to Certain Popular Objections Against Separating from the Rebellious Colonies'' (1776). SOURCES
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