The Standard of ValueLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 187 pages |
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Page xvii
... relative rates made the French mint the better market for silver and the United States mint the better market for gold . The metals were , therefore , each taken to the mint which was relatively the best market for it . It was thus the ...
... relative rates made the French mint the better market for silver and the United States mint the better market for gold . The metals were , therefore , each taken to the mint which was relatively the best market for it . It was thus the ...
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... value a victory of its own , independent of the relative merits of the gold , the silver , or the double standard . A hundred years of argument against the use of the term standard of value may be said to have been brought to a climax ...
... value a victory of its own , independent of the relative merits of the gold , the silver , or the double standard . A hundred years of argument against the use of the term standard of value may be said to have been brought to a climax ...
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... values being 207. and 47. respectively , the formula stands : - ab : 20x : 4x . The fact that the value of x fluctuates does not prevent its being used as a standard to arrive at the relative values of a and b . If gold doubled in value ...
... values being 207. and 47. respectively , the formula stands : - ab : 20x : 4x . The fact that the value of x fluctuates does not prevent its being used as a standard to arrive at the relative values of a and b . If gold doubled in value ...
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... value , ' did not in any way imply the use or existence of money . ' " oxen . In such case , then , in those Homeric times , oxen were , in fact , the standard by which the relative values of commodities were measured , just as gold is ...
... value , ' did not in any way imply the use or existence of money . ' " oxen . In such case , then , in those Homeric times , oxen were , in fact , the standard by which the relative values of commodities were measured , just as gold is ...
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... relative values of all other commodities , whereas the so - called credit circulation merely represents the value of commodities in negotiation , and must fluctuate with the fluctuation of the prices of those commodi- ties as measured ...
... relative values of all other commodities , whereas the so - called credit circulation merely represents the value of commodities in negotiation , and must fluctuate with the fluctuation of the prices of those commodi- ties as measured ...
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