The Standard of ValueLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 187 pages |
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Page ix
... bimetallism in the United States will take away from gold just as much of its purchasing power as was added to it by the demonetisation of silver in the United States , ' 2 It is not for Mr. Bryan to frame clauses to meet circumstances ...
... bimetallism in the United States will take away from gold just as much of its purchasing power as was added to it by the demonetisation of silver in the United States , ' 2 It is not for Mr. Bryan to frame clauses to meet circumstances ...
Page xviii
... bimetallists and monometallists in the present campaign as regards theoretical discussion has been the quanti- tative theory . There is no bimetallist who is not an adherent of that theory , which has been argued against by the leading ...
... bimetallists and monometallists in the present campaign as regards theoretical discussion has been the quanti- tative theory . There is no bimetallist who is not an adherent of that theory , which has been argued against by the leading ...
Page xx
... bimetallists , however , have never had that object in view , but opened the present campaign , in opposition to the Paris Conference of 1867 , for the purpose of pre- venting the disastrous appreciation of gold which they foresaw and ...
... bimetallists , however , have never had that object in view , but opened the present campaign , in opposition to the Paris Conference of 1867 , for the purpose of pre- venting the disastrous appreciation of gold which they foresaw and ...
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... bimetallism , the other half have more or less abandoned the old lines on which the gold standard has hitherto been defended . The two points of importance round which they now appear chiefly to rally are the old story of a deluge of ...
... bimetallism , the other half have more or less abandoned the old lines on which the gold standard has hitherto been defended . The two points of importance round which they now appear chiefly to rally are the old story of a deluge of ...
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... bimetallists , that the long - continued low range of prices gives to this country a larger return on its foreign loans . The Index headings , Deluge of Silver , and Creditor Nation , indicate respectively the parts of this volume in ...
... bimetallists , that the long - continued low range of prices gives to this country a larger return on its foreign loans . The Index headings , Deluge of Silver , and Creditor Nation , indicate respectively the parts of this volume in ...
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