The Elements of Political Economy

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Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858 - Economics - 573 pages
 

Contents

Extracts from Sir Archibald Alisons History regarding
27
Tendency towards an equilibrium of advantages
30
Disadvantages of a Metallic Currency
32
SECTION
34
1
41
Examination of this example
42
Most perfect form of a Currency
45
SECTION
46
Length of time it took to abolish the Usury Laws
52
Difficulty of discriminating the separate causes
58
The distinction between Value in use and Value in Exchange
60
PAGE
66
Or to the momentum of a body
72
Meaning of CAPITAL and CREDIT
78
6
83
Certain dogmas derived from these views
84
Disturbances of the Exchange unprofitable
85
Further elucidation of the operation of Capital
89
Examination of the operation of Credit
95
Inconvenience of an unlimited quantity of two species
96
9
100
Bills of Exchange are independent values
101
This test a certain
102
7
106
Further examination of fixed and floating capital
107
Diminution in value of coin does not cause any difference
108
The hire of an article is not proportional to its value
113
Fundamental error of the Protective System
114
Effects of a diminution of the cost of production of an article
116
29
122
48
131
Case of the value of pictures statues
134
362
141
Application of the law of price to forced sales
146
Natural advantage of fluctuation of prices
152
Important to inquire what circumstances will produce
158
He rejects the idea of estimating value by the exchangeable
159
Wages of labor also an erroneous measure
165
122
183
Rent may be increased even though price does not increase
193
13
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39
213
His misanalogy regarding a lottery
214
Nature of the transaction
218
59
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8
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Preliminary Remarks
241
The essence of Currency is personal liability
246
Necessary to explain the conception of the science as adopted
247
Meaning of CONSUMPTION
250
Error regarding commercial Bills
253
Impossible to ascertain the effect of a contraction of issues
259
9
260
43
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Necessity for money changers
343
11
349
The same quantity of metal is of the same value whether
355
An alteration in the Mint price of gold means an alteration
361
Difference of NOMINAL EXCHANGE and REAL EXCHANGE
363
Favourable exchange with bullionproducing countries is
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65
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A political or commercial convulsion in any country causes
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16
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The same continued
440
Fallacy of the expression good bills
449
Effects of the action of this principle
455
Debasement of the currency under Edward II
467
Quotations from contemporary writers
476
The same continued
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36
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16
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122
509
The same continued
513
SECTION PAGE 71 Great rise in the price of gold and fall in the exchanges
516
Declaration by that Committee that the Bank should regulate 74 State of facts agreed upon
517
Some of the doctrines maintained by the Committee
519
Mr Horners resolutions
520
The Government maintains that the coinage of England never did contain any definite weight of bullion
521
Absurdity of this opinion
522
The House of Commons votes that 21 was equal to 27
523
Consequences of this vote Further depreciation of the note
524
Which species of industry conduces most to national opulence 88
525
Great destruction of paper currency and restoration of the remainder to par
526
Third suspension of cash payments by the Bank of England
527
Appointment of committees by both Houses of Parliament
528
The British pound means 5dwts 3274grns of gold 22
529
Table shewing the different values for which the pound weight of silver and gold were ordered to pass current by various mint indentures from 1344...
531
Table showing the chief variations in the market price of gold bullion from 1790 to 1819 and the true value of the Bank of England 1 note during th...
532
CHAPTER VII
533
Great importance of the question
535
The whole end of Political Economy is to regulate the currency
536
Act to suspend payments
546
Action of the Bank during the crisis
552
43
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principle
560
Sir Robert Peels statements erroneous
562
Plan of the Act
564
First trial of the Act
565
The same continued
566
Triumph of the principles of the Bullion Report
567
The Bank Act composed of two incongruous elements
568
Second suspension of the Act
569
Fatal defect of the Bank Act and true method of regulating the Paper Currency
571
Absurdity of the Currency principle
572

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