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Readings in Money and Banking, Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Philips

March 31, 2010

PREFACE Designed mainly for class, room use in connection with one of the introductory manuals on the subject of Money and Banking or of Money and Currency, this volume, in itself, lays no claim to completeness. Where its use is contemplated the problems of emphasis and proportion are, accordingly, to be solved by the...

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The Principles of Currency and Banking – Being Five Lectures Delivered in Queen’s College

March 31, 2010

PREFACE In the present edition of these Lectures I have corrected some inaccuracies which occurred in the first. I have in many places, where my meaning seemed to be obscure, endeavoured to make it plain ; and I have, in some instances, altered the arrangement of the subjects. I believe that they are thus...

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Principles of Banks and Banking of Money, as Coin and Paper

March 31, 2010

THE metals have so long performed the use of money, that money and coin are become almost synonymous, although in their principles they be quite different. The first thing therefore to be done in treating of money, is, to separate two ideas, which, by being blended .together, have very greatly contributed to throw a...

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1816-1916, One Hundred Years of Savings Banking

March 28, 2010

Preface THE complexities of modern economic and social life induce study and investigation into causes for chaos as the result of difference between capital and labor, the high cost of living and other such problems. There is no doubt that fundamentally lack of thrift in the average individual ; his lack of co-operation, of...

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Our Defective American Banking System; A Diagnosis and A Prescription

March 28, 2010

THE periodic recurrence in the United States of severe financial crises, from which the other great nations of the world are nearly if not quite exempt, indicates that something is fundamentally wrong with our banking system and credit machinery. It is, indeed, not uncommon to hear that system denounced as the worst now to...

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On Chinese currency, preliminary remarks about the monetary reform in China

March 28, 2010

INTRODUCTION Great difficulty was frequently experienced in the course of this work in clearly distinguishing between different notions which had to be expressed by means of one and the same term in English. I have attempted to solve this difficulty by printing a genus with a small letter and a species with a capital...

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National Economy and the Banking System of the United States by Robert Latham Owen

March 28, 2010

FOREWORD Twenty-five years ago today Woodrow Wikon, in the presence of members of his Cabinet, chief executive officers, and leaders of the United States Senate and House of Representatives, approved the Federal Reserve Act. Three solid gold penholders and pens had been prepared for the occasion. Three original copies of this act were printed...

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Nonnegative Wealth, Absence of Arbitrage, and Feasible Consumption Plans

March 25, 2010

Abstract A restriction to nonnegative wealth is sufficient to preclude all arbitrage opportunities in financial models that have risk neutral probabilities that are valid for all simple strategies. Imposing nonnegative wealth does not constrain agents from making the choice they would make under the standard integrability condition. This conclusion does not depend on whether...

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Money, Banking, and Finance by Albert Sydney Bolles

March 24, 2010

PREFACE Excellent books on the best methods of bank book-keeping already exist, also other books on the theories and history of money and banking. In a well-organized course on banking this book should fill an intermediate place between those described; it is the pioneer of its kind. It is designed especially for three classes...

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Money And Banking by William Scott

March 24, 2010

MONEY is one of those terms which political economists have borrowed from popular speech and found ill-adapted to their purposes. In spite of numerous attempts to make a suitable definition, it still lacks the precision and definiteness of meaning which should characterize scientific terminology. Popular usage is tolerably consistent and clear, but fails to...

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Money and Banking Illustrated by American History

March 24, 2010

PREFACE DURING the past three years a marked change in public sentiment regarding the money question has forced its way into the national councils. In the act of May 30, 1908, the two houses of Congress, for the first time since the Civil War, agreed that a bond-secured currency was not the only kind...

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Money and Banking by John Holdsworth

March 24, 2010

PREFACE There are many excellent manuals treating of the history and principles of money, of credit, and of the history, principles and practices of banking, but the author has not found any single book which presents in a concise way the whole general subject of money and banking, so arranged as to make it...

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Modern Money Lending and the Meaning of Dividends

March 24, 2010

THE practice of Money-lending is now carried out on such an enormous scale, and by such a large class of society, and is attended by certain evils so widespread and disastrous, that it has become fairly necessary to look the problem in the face ; and whatever may be the conclusions arrived at, I...

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Modern Illustrative Banking by Virgil Neal

March 24, 2010

PREFATORY NOTE This text-book on banking is designed to reproduce as nearly as possible the practical workings of a national bank. A detailed account of the organization and practical management of banks is given, but the books are opened from statements showing the condition of a bank that is in operation. For the purpose...

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Mathematics of Finance

March 24, 2010

PREFACE It is the main purpose of this book to present a teachable elementary course in the application of mathematics to a broad class of financial problems. The material for the book has been obtained from many sources and tested in the teaching of such courses at three large universities. Experience has shown that...

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