The Standard of ValueLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 187 pages |
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... legislation was even yet on the statute books . Having made the discovery , the President denounced the Act to the late Senator Beck , of Kentucky , as fraud . " ― Moreton Frewen , National Review , p . 403 , November 1896 . a gabalus ...
... legislation was even yet on the statute books . Having made the discovery , the President denounced the Act to the late Senator Beck , of Kentucky , as fraud . " ― Moreton Frewen , National Review , p . 403 , November 1896 . a gabalus ...
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... legislation in England , Germany , 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 ...
... legislation in England , Germany , 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 ...
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... by an arbitrary piece of legislation unguided by any shadow of financial principle ? Or was it , perhaps , that Sir Robert Peel's qualms of conscience were more clearly expressed in private conversation with the 2 THE STANDARD OF VALUE.
... by an arbitrary piece of legislation unguided by any shadow of financial principle ? Or was it , perhaps , that Sir Robert Peel's qualms of conscience were more clearly expressed in private conversation with the 2 THE STANDARD OF VALUE.
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... legislation than not to re - establish it at all . I contend merely that by international legislation unnecessary complications and dangers are created outside the question of purely financial theory , which are not compensated by the ...
... legislation than not to re - establish it at all . I contend merely that by international legislation unnecessary complications and dangers are created outside the question of purely financial theory , which are not compensated by the ...
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... legislation in 1816 , at great disadvantage , to the equally great advantage of India and some other countries . III . Mr. William Fowler says : - ' We do not want any more money . We have too much ' money ; we have got a standard which ...
... legislation in 1816 , at great disadvantage , to the equally great advantage of India and some other countries . III . Mr. William Fowler says : - ' We do not want any more money . We have too much ' money ; we have got a standard which ...
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