The Standard of ValueLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 187 pages |
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Page ix
... establish a mint price for silver , and leave no surplus silver upon the market to drag down the price of bullion . Under bi- metallism silver bullion will be worth as much as silver coin , just as gold bullion is now worth as much as ...
... establish a mint price for silver , and leave no surplus silver upon the market to drag down the price of bullion . Under bi- metallism silver bullion will be worth as much as silver coin , just as gold bullion is now worth as much as ...
Page x
... establish the former gold value of silver . Suppose , for the sake of argument , mistaken in his estimate of the influence of the United States mint , and that under his proposed action gold would go to a premium in the United States ...
... establish the former gold value of silver . Suppose , for the sake of argument , mistaken in his estimate of the influence of the United States mint , and that under his proposed action gold would go to a premium in the United States ...
Page xii
... establish permanently Lord Liverpool's views in favour of the adoption of the Gold Standard . This is now disputed by Mr. Delmar and other writers . An article in the ' Bankers ' Magazine ' for May 1895 refers to a clause in the Act of ...
... establish permanently Lord Liverpool's views in favour of the adoption of the Gold Standard . This is now disputed by Mr. Delmar and other writers . An article in the ' Bankers ' Magazine ' for May 1895 refers to a clause in the Act of ...
Page xv
... establish permanently the views expressed in the letter addressed by the first Lord Liverpool to the King , in favour of the Sole Gold Standard and free coinage of unlimited legal tender coins . But a compromise appears to have been ...
... establish permanently the views expressed in the letter addressed by the first Lord Liverpool to the King , in favour of the Sole Gold Standard and free coinage of unlimited legal tender coins . But a compromise appears to have been ...
Page xviii
... establishing for us the science of political economy . But whilst in argument opposing the quantitative theory , the mono- metallic party have utilised it in practice for their purposes in the Indian Empire , in a manner which has had ...
... establishing for us the science of political economy . But whilst in argument opposing the quantitative theory , the mono- metallic party have utilised it in practice for their purposes in the Indian Empire , in a manner which has had ...
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