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CHAPTER XI. Of Credit, as a Substitute for Money.

§ 1. Credit not a creation but a transfer of the means of production.

2. In what manner it assists production

3. Function of credit in economizing the use of money

4. Bills of exchange

5. Promissory notes

6. Deposits and cheques

CHAPTER XII. Influence of Credit on Prices.

§ 1. The influence of bank notes, bills, and cheques, on price, a part of

the influence of Credit

2. Credit a purchasing power similar to money

3. Effects of great extensions and contractions of credit. Phenomena

of a commercial crisis analysed

4. Bills a more powerful instrument for acting on prices than book

credits, and bank notes than bills.

the distinction of little practical importance

6. Cheques an instrument for acting on prices, equally powerful with

7. Are bank notes money?.

8. No generic distinction between bank notes and other forms of credit 327

CHAPTER XIII. Of an Inconvertible Paper Currency.

§ 1. The value of an inconvertible paper, depending on its quantity, is

a matter of arbitrary regulation

2. If regulated by the price of bullion, an inconvertible currency
might be safe, but not expedient.

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4. of the doctrine that an increase of the currency promotes
industry

3. Examination of the doctrine that an inconvertible currency is safe

if representing actual property

5. Depreciation of currency a tax on the community, and a fraud on

6. Examination of some pleas for committing this fraud

1. Can there be an oversupply of commodities generally?

2. The supply of commodities in general, cannot exceed the power of

never does exceed the inclination to consume

4. Origin and explanation of the notion of general oversupply

CHAPTER XV. Of a Measure of Value.

1. A Measure of Exchange Value, in what sense possible

2. A Measure of Cost of Production.

Of some Peculiar Cases of Value.

$1. The of CIL. Is which have a join cost of production

2. Values of the different kinds of agricultural produce

CHAPTER XVII. Of International Trade.

§1. Cost of production not the regulator of international values.

2. Interchange of commodities between distant places, determined by

differences not in their absolute, but in their comparative, cost

3. The direct benefits of commerce consist in increased efficiency of

the productive powers of the world

not in a vent for exports, nor in the gains of merchants

5. Indirect benefits of commerce, economical and moral; still greater

than the direct .

CHAPTER XVIII. Of International Values.

1. The values of imported commodities depend on the terms of inter-

national interchange

2.- which depend on the Equation of International Demand

3. Influence of cost of carriage on international values

4. The law of values which holds between two countries, and two

commodities, holds of any greater number.

5. Effect of improvements in production, on international values

6. The preceding theory not complete

7. International values depend not solely on the quantities demanded,

but also on the means of production available in each country

for the supply of foreign markets.

8. The practical result little affected by this additional element

9. The cost to a country of its imports, on what circumstances

CHAPTER XIX. Of Money, considered as an Imported

§ 1. Money imported in two modes; as a commodity, and as a medium

2. As a commodity, it obeys the same laws of value as other imported

3. Its value does not depend exclusively on its cost of production at

1. Purposes for which money passes from country to country as a

niedium of exchange

2. Mode of adjusting international payments through the exchanges. 370

3. Distinction between variations in the exchanges which are self-

adjusting, and those which can only be rectified through prices. 373

Of the Distribution of the Precious Metals

through the Commercial World.

$1. The substitution of money for barter makes no difference in exports

and imports, nor in the law of international values.

2. The preceding theorem further illustrated. .

§ 3. The precious metals, as money, are of the same value, and dis

tribute themselves according to the same law, with the precious

metals as a commodity

4. International payments of a non-commercial character

CHAPTER XXII. Influence of Currency on the Exchanges and

on Foreign Trade.

§ 1. Variations in the exchange, which originate in the currency
2. Effect of a sudden increase of a metallic currency, or of the sudden
creation of bank notes or other substitutes for money

3. Effect of the increase of an inconvertible paper currency. Real

and nominal exchange

CHAPTER XXIII. Of the Rate of Interest.

§ 1. The rate of interest depends on the demand and supply of loans

2. Circumstances which determine the permanent demand and supply

3. Circumstances which determine the fluctuations

4. The rate of interest, how far, and in what sense, connected with

the value of money

5. The rate of interest determines the price of land and of securities. 393

CHAPTER XXIV. Of the Regulation of a Convertible

Paper Currency.

§ 1. Two contrary theories respecting the influence of bank issues

2. Examination of each.

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3. Reasons for thinking that the Currency Act of 1844 produces a

part of the beneficial effect intended by it.

but produces mischiefs more than equivalent

5. Should the issue of bank notes be confined to a single esta-

6. Should the holders of notes be protected in any peculiar manner

against failure of payment?.

CHAPTER XXV. Of the Competition of different Countries

in the same Market.

§ 1. Causes which enable one country to undersell another

2. Low wages one of those causes

CHAPTER XXVI. Of Distribution, as affected by Exchange.

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§1 Exchange and Money make no difference in the law of wages

in the law of rent.

-nor in the law of profits

INFLUENCE OF THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY ON
PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION.

CHAPTER I. General Characteristics of a Progressive State

§1. Introductory Remarks

2. Tendency of the progress of society towards increased command

over the powers of nature; increased security; and increased

capacity of co-operation

CHAPTER II. Influence of the Progress of Industry and

Population on Values and Prices.

§ 1. Tendency to a decline of the value and cost of production of all

>2.except the products of agriculture and mining, which have a

tendency to rise

that tendency from time to time counteracted by improvements

4. Effect of the progress of society in moderating fluctuations of value
5. Examination of the influence of speculators, and in particular of
corn dealers. .

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CHAPTER III. Influence of the Progress of Industry and

Population on Rents, Profits, and Wages.

1. First case; population increasing, capital stationary

2. Second case; capital increasing, population stationary

3. Third case; population and capital increasing equally, the arts of

production stationary.

4. Fourth case: the arts of production progressive, capital and popu-

lation stationary

CHAPTER IV. Of the Tendency of Profits to a Minimum.

§1. Doctrine of Adam Smith on the competition of capital

2. Doctrine of Mr. Wakefield respecting the field of employment

3. What determines the minimum rate of profit

4. In opulent countries, profits habitually near to the minimum

prevented from reaching it by commercial revulsions

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7. by the importation of cheap necessaries and instruments

8. — by the emigration of capital

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CHAPTER V. Consequences of the Tendency of Profits to
a Minimum.

§ 1. Abstraction of capital not necessarily a national loss

2. In opulent countries, the extension of machinery not detrimental

but beneficial to labourers

CHAPTER VI. Of the Stationary State.

§ 1. Stationary state of wealth and population, dreaded and deprecated

but not in itself undesirable

CHAPTER VII. On the Probable Futurity of the Labouring

> 2. The future well-being of the labouring classes principally dependent

on their own mental cultivation

§1. The theory of dependence and protection no longer applicable to

the condition of modern society

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3. Probable effects of improved intelligence in causing a better

adjustment of population-Would be promoted by the social

independence of women

4. Tendency of society towards the disuse of the relation of hiring

5. Examples of the association of labourers with capitalists.

of the association of labourers among themselves

7. Competition not pernicious, but useful and indispensable.

ON THE INFLUENCE OF GOVERNMENT.

CHAPTER I. Of the Functions of Government in general.

§1. Necessary and optional functions of government distinguished .

2. Multifarious character of the necessary functions of government

3. Division of the subject

CHAPTER II. Of the General Principles of Taxation.

§ 1. Four fundamental rules of taxation.

5. The increase of the rent of land from natural causes a fit subject of
peculiar taxation

2. Grounds of the principle of Equality of Taxation

3. Should the same percentage be levied on all amounts of income?

4. Should the same percentage be levied on perpetual and on termi-

6. A land tax, in some cases, not taxation, but a rent-charge in favour

7. Taxes falling on capital, not necessarily objectionable

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