The Standard of ValueLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 187 pages |
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... foreign countries . Benjamin Disraeli , in his ever memorable speech in Glasgow in November 1873 , spoke words of warning regarding the attempts being made to change the standard of value ; and Prince Bismarck has recently expressed ...
... foreign countries . Benjamin Disraeli , in his ever memorable speech in Glasgow in November 1873 , spoke words of warning regarding the attempts being made to change the standard of value ; and Prince Bismarck has recently expressed ...
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... foreign nations , and our colonies to protect themselves against the unjust action of the Gold Standard . The selfishness of the arguments by which monometallists have defended , and thus far succeeded in maintaining , our Gold Standard ...
... foreign nations , and our colonies to protect themselves against the unjust action of the Gold Standard . The selfishness of the arguments by which monometallists have defended , and thus far succeeded in maintaining , our Gold Standard ...
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... CONSEQUENCES . 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.
... CONSEQUENCES . 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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William Leighton Jordan. CHAPTER V. FOREIGN DEBTS IN LONDON . THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC IN THE SILVER QUESTION • CHAPTER VI . THE DOUBLE STANDARD AND THE NATIONAL Debt . PAGE 127 133 APPENDIX . I. GOLD AND PRICES , BEING LETTERS PUBLISHED ...
William Leighton Jordan. CHAPTER V. FOREIGN DEBTS IN LONDON . THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC IN THE SILVER QUESTION • CHAPTER VI . THE DOUBLE STANDARD AND THE NATIONAL Debt . PAGE 127 133 APPENDIX . I. GOLD AND PRICES , BEING LETTERS PUBLISHED ...
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... foreign loans . The Index headings , Deluge of Silver , and Creditor Nation , indicate respectively the parts of this volume in which those two points are discussed . As regards the latter point , it will be seen that I endeavour to ...
... foreign loans . The Index headings , Deluge of Silver , and Creditor Nation , indicate respectively the parts of this volume in which those two points are discussed . As regards the latter point , it will be seen that I endeavour to ...
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