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Slim Quarto, [2] 79pp. Original burgandy morocco soft leather, gilt titles. Table of Contents.:MONEY. Metallic Money. Circumstances which led to the use of Money. Principal properties which all Commodities used as such ought to possess. Metallic Money not a Sign or a Measure of Value, but a real Equivalent. Circumstances which Regulate the Exchangeable Value of Money. : A Moderate Seignorage on Coined Money advantageous. Principles which should regulate its amount. Expense of a Currency consisting of the Precious Metals. How Paper is substituted for Coins, and its value maintained. Whether Gold or Silver should be adopted as the Standard of the Currency, or whether it should consist of both. Standard of Money. Duodecimal and Decimal systems of dividing Coins. Degradation of Coins in Rome, France, Great Britain, and other countries. Effects of this degradation. TABLES RELATIVE TO THE MONEY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND OTHER COUNTRIES: PAPER-MONEY. General Principles in regard to Paper-Money. Banks of Deposit and Banks of Issue. Principles on which they are established. Bank of England, Account of. Private and Joint-Stock Banks. Act of 1844. Objections to and Defence of that Act. Suspensions of in 1847 and 1857. Management of the Bank of England. TABLES exhibiting a View of the Issues, Securities, Bullion, &c., of the Bank of England, and of the Joint-Stock and Private Banks in England and Wales. Banks (Scotch).: Banking in Ireland. Banks of Venice, Amsterdam, &c.The Bank of France, : Banking in the United States. [ John Ramsey McCulloch was a Scottish economist, author and editor, widely regarded as the leader of the Ricardian school of economists after the death of David Ricardo in 1823. He was appointed the first professor of political economy at University College London in 1828. He wrote extensively on economic policy, and was a pioneer in the collection, statistical analysis and publication of economic data.] Excellent Copy. RARE FIRST EDITION. Seller Inventory # 1144
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Title: A TREATISE ON METALLIC AND PAPER MONEY AND ...
Publisher: Adam and Charles Black:, Edinburgh.
Publication Date: 1858
Edition: First Edition.
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