The Standard of ValueLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 187 pages |
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Page viii
... France , to half the members of the Royal Commission on Gold and Silver , and to many other leading men in this and foreign countries . Benjamin Disraeli , in his ever memorable speech in Glasgow in November 1873 , spoke words of ...
... France , to half the members of the Royal Commission on Gold and Silver , and to many other leading men in this and foreign countries . Benjamin Disraeli , in his ever memorable speech in Glasgow in November 1873 , spoke words of ...
Page x
... France and the United States , large amounts of what , whilst the mints are closed against silver , must continue to be overvalued silver coins , to take in order to get clear of that abnormal condition . They have their currency in a ...
... France and the United States , large amounts of what , whilst the mints are closed against silver , must continue to be overvalued silver coins , to take in order to get clear of that abnormal condition . They have their currency in a ...
Page xvii
... France and the United States respectively which made the United States relatively a better market for gold than for silver . If the United States law had made the ratio 15 to I , that country would then have been the better market for ...
... France and the United States respectively which made the United States relatively a better market for gold than for silver . If the United States law had made the ratio 15 to I , that country would then have been the better market for ...
Page xix
... France , and the United States in the years 1870 to 1873 was the practical application of the advice of the Paris Conference of 1867 , for the avowed purpose of bringing about a unification of coinage , and the warning voices , pointing ...
... France , and the United States in the years 1870 to 1873 was the practical application of the advice of the Paris Conference of 1867 , for the avowed purpose of bringing about a unification of coinage , and the warning voices , pointing ...
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... France before 1873 on the relative value of gold and silver . On the one hand , it is contended by monometallists that the fluctuations in the London quotations for silver show that the so - called Double Standard cannot be anything but ...
... France before 1873 on the relative value of gold and silver . On the one hand , it is contended by monometallists that the fluctuations in the London quotations for silver show that the so - called Double Standard cannot be anything but ...
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