The Standard of ValueLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 187 pages |
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Page xviii
... history of the world since the last edition of this book was issued is the abolition of the Silver Standard in India . The Government rupee , which has been substituted for silver as the Indian Standard of Value , differs at this moment ...
... history of the world since the last edition of this book was issued is the abolition of the Silver Standard in India . The Government rupee , which has been substituted for silver as the Indian Standard of Value , differs at this moment ...
Page xix
... history , because it was avowedly done for the purpose of making the money received for taxes , and stipulated to be paid away out of those taxes , worth more than under the discarded standard , whereas the legislation in England ...
... history , because it was avowedly done for the purpose of making the money received for taxes , and stipulated to be paid away out of those taxes , worth more than under the discarded standard , whereas the legislation in England ...
Page xxiii
... . CHAPTER II . · THE POUND STERLING : ITS HISTORY AND CHARACTER . 69 100 CHAPTER III . RIGHTS OF PROPERTY . 117 CHAPTER IV . THE IRISH LAND ACT , 1881 . 122 CHAPTER V. FOREIGN DEBTS IN LONDON . THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.
... . CHAPTER II . · THE POUND STERLING : ITS HISTORY AND CHARACTER . 69 100 CHAPTER III . RIGHTS OF PROPERTY . 117 CHAPTER IV . THE IRISH LAND ACT , 1881 . 122 CHAPTER V. FOREIGN DEBTS IN LONDON . THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.
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... history of his country and the characteristics of its constitutional government , or to whatever political party he may belong , could desire to have such an interpretation as that placed upon his arguments - but to the effect that ...
... history of his country and the characteristics of its constitutional government , or to whatever political party he may belong , could desire to have such an interpretation as that placed upon his arguments - but to the effect that ...
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... history of the world . And , taking a merely English view of the case , if Parliament , in 1816 , had a right to decree the legal establishment of the gold standard just after our immense debt of 850,000,000l . had been borrowed under ...
... history of the world . And , taking a merely English view of the case , if Parliament , in 1816 , had a right to decree the legal establishment of the gold standard just after our immense debt of 850,000,000l . had been borrowed under ...
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