The Standard of ValueLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 187 pages |
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Page xvii
... metals were , therefore , each taken to the mint which was relatively the best market for it . It was thus the action of arbitrary laws in France and the United States respectively which made the United States relatively a better market ...
... metals were , therefore , each taken to the mint which was relatively the best market for it . It was thus the action of arbitrary laws in France and the United States respectively which made the United States relatively a better market ...
Page xx
... metals . It is widely acknowledged that a tendency to excess in the produc- tion of those metals better suits the general interests of trade , industry , and agriculture than scarcity of supply ; bimetallists , however , have never had ...
... metals . It is widely acknowledged that a tendency to excess in the produc- tion of those metals better suits the general interests of trade , industry , and agriculture than scarcity of supply ; bimetallists , however , have never had ...
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... metals.'t - It is dangerous to launch the theory of Mill on credit without the ballast I have placed in italics , which shows that his views on that subject have really nothing to do with the question of bimetallism , but ought ...
... metals.'t - It is dangerous to launch the theory of Mill on credit without the ballast I have placed in italics , which shows that his views on that subject have really nothing to do with the question of bimetallism , but ought ...
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... metal available for the payment of the interest on the National Debt , and leaves less value in the hands of each labouring man than he would retain if the coin in which the law arbitrarily enforces payment of the interest on the debt ...
... metal available for the payment of the interest on the National Debt , and leaves less value in the hands of each labouring man than he would retain if the coin in which the law arbitrarily enforces payment of the interest on the debt ...
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... metal keeps up or improves , they 6 can increase the amount . ' ' Bimetallists will , however , I hope , have nothing more to do with any such palliatives ; for , as a matter of principle , limita- tions of coinage have a tendency to ...
... metal keeps up or improves , they 6 can increase the amount . ' ' Bimetallists will , however , I hope , have nothing more to do with any such palliatives ; for , as a matter of principle , limita- tions of coinage have a tendency to ...
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