Considerations on a new monetary system for China

May 22, 2010

Purpose of the pamphlet.— The Commission on International Exchange published at Shanghai a pamphlet, “Memoranda on a New Monetary System for China,” prepared by Mr. Jenks. In that pamphlet were given the reasons why the United States Government had appointed the Commission on International Exchange, a very brief outline of the plan which was...

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Bullion and Foreign Exchanges theoretically and practically considered

May 22, 2010

BULLION and Foreign Exchanges are subjects generally comprised among the contents of higher class books on Practical Arithmetic; though, of course, the consideration given in works of the kind to these interesting topics is necessarily only limited and superficial, at the best. There are several publications on Banking and Commercial Business which go somewhat...

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Banking Reform in the United States – a Series of Proposals, including a Central Bank of limited scope

May 22, 2010

THE four article in this volume were published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics for May 1900, February, August and November 1010. Only the first of them has been subjected to any very considerable revision. Matters which are considered more in d( tail in the subsequent papers have been omitted, corrections and additions have...

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A Ready Reckoner of the World’s Foreign and Colonial Exchanges of Seven Monetary and Currency Intermediaries

May 21, 2010

PREFACE I earnestly invite the most serious attention, with unbiased mind, of every one especially rulers, statesmen, legislators, and economists — to this analysis of the world’s prices and foreign and colonial exchanges of intermediaries; and to the simple arithmetical demonstration to travellers, traders, and financiers of their effects upon the interchanges of things...

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A Historical View of the Domestic Economy of Great Britain, and Ireland, from the earliest to the present times

May 18, 2010

The reader, who honours the following sheets, with an attentive perusal, may probably find, that though we have advanced, by wide steps, during « the last century, in the science of politics, we have still much to learn ; and that the summit can only be gained, by substituting accurate research, for delusive speculation,...

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A Handbook of London Bankers

May 18, 2010

PREFACE During the time I set myself the pleasurable task of investigating the early history of Child’s Bank, I had occasion to look through a vast quantity of old cheques, bills, and cash-notes, extending in time over close upon two centuries; when I observed that all drafts passing through the hands of a gold-smith...

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A Discourse on the Rise Progress Peculiar Objects and Importance of Political Economy

May 18, 2010

My object in publishing the following Discourse has been to furnish the Students of Political Economy with a general view of the principles on which the science is founded; the distinguishing features of the most celebrated theories that have been advanced to explain its various results ; the distinction between it and Politics; the...

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A Brief Examination Into the Increase of Revenue, Commerce and Navigation

May 18, 2010

THE immense accumulation of the Public Debts, and the depressed state of Public Credit, of the Revenue, and of the Funds, . at the close of the last War, together with the loss of several extensive and populous Colonies in North America, led some of the ablest and most experienced men in the Kingdom,...

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The Principles of Banking, Its Utility and Economy; with Remarks on the Working and Management of the Bank of England by Thomson Hankey

April 19, 2010

Every note presented at the Bank of England for payment must be immediately paid in gold coin ; but as it was known that the wants of the community in this country were such as to require, for the ordinary trade, from 17 to 20 million pounds of Bank of England Notes to be...

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The Principles and Practice of Banking by William Gilbart

April 19, 2010

THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF BANKING. An eminent historian observes, that ” it is a cruel mortification, in searching for what is instructive in the history of past times, to find that the exploits of conquerors who have desolated the earth, and the freaks of tyrants who have rendered nations unhappy, are recorded with...

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The People’s Money : A Brief Analysis of the Present Position in America by John Wesley De Kay

April 19, 2010

THERE is an increasing feeling throughout the United States that there has developed in recent years a power with which the Government is unable to cope, and which is beyond the control of the public. The steps by which this power has been centred in the hands of a few men are little known...

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The Logic Of Banking by William Gilbart

April 19, 2010

PREFACE IN my ” Logic for the Million,” published in the year 1851, I advised my readers, as a means of forming a habit of reasoning, to associate their reasonings with their daily avocations. I afterwards thought I might exemplify my own instructions, by selecting from my writings on Banking such extracts as might...

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