Posts Tagged ‘ Economics ’

Seventeen Talks On the Banking Question

December 13, 2009
Seventeen Talks On the Banking Question

FOREWORD THIS book is written in the form of a conversation between Uncle Sam and six men of various occupations. It begins with the A, B, C of the subject and by question and answer goes over all the different phases of the subject precisely as you would expect them to arise under such...

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Adam Smith by Francis W Hirst

December 13, 2009
Adam Smith by Francis W Hirst

CONTENTS CHAPTER I PAGE EARLY YEARS CHAPTER II – THE BEGINNING OF A CAREER CHAPTER III – THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS ESTABLISHMENTS CHAPTER IV – “THE THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS” CHAPTER V – IN THE GLASGOW CHAIR THE LECTURES ON JUSTICE AND POLICE CHAPTER VI – GLASGOW AND ITS UNIVERSITY CHAPTER VII – THE TOUR...

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A Fraudulent Standard by Arthur Kitson

December 13, 2009
A Fraudulent Standard by Arthur Kitson

PREFACE The idea expressed and the conclusions arrived at in this work, are the result of many years of careful thought and study, coupled with practical and varied experience of a very busy in connection with industrial, commercial, and financial affairs, both here and abroad. It is now nearly a quarter of a century,...

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Courses of Study in Corporation Finance and Investment by Lyon Hastings

May 31, 2009
Courses of Study in Corporation Finance and Investment by Lyon Hastings

Prefatory by Lyon Hastings About two years ago at the written request of several members of the Investment Bankers Association, the Board of Governors appointed a Special Committee consisting of Lawrence Chamberlain, Chairman, EW Bulkley and A.W Bullard, to consider the expediency of compiling and printing a text or texts of subject matter relating...

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Banks and Paper Currency – Their Effects on Society

May 28, 2009

BANKS AND A PAPER CURRENCY – Introduction by the Author of the Book A pamphlet was published at Louisville, Kentucky, with the title ” Elements of a Bank Charter, arranged for the benefit of the public, and safety of the Stockholders.” As the general reasonings on which it was founded, applying to the proposed...

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A Report on the Currency

May 20, 2009

A Series of Weekly Meetings of friends of a Sound Currency began September 23d, 1858, in the rooms of the Mercantile Library Association, Clinton Hall, New York, Jambs Gallatin, Esq., residing. In addition to citizens of New York and Brooklyn, gentlemen from Boston, Salem, Louisville, Lexington, and other places, were present at one or...

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A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurence in the US by Clement Juglar

May 20, 2009
A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurence in the US by Clement Juglar

INTRODUCTION NOTE BY THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK COMPRISING A CONDENSATION OF THE THEORY OF PANICS, BY M. JUGLAR, RENDERED INTO ENGLISH, WITH CERTAIN ADDITIONAL MATERIAL, BY DECOURCY W. THOM. In this translation, made with the author’s consent, my chief object being to convey his entire meaning, I have unhesitatingly rendered the French very...

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A Financial Chapter in the History of Bombay City

In 1897 the Editor of the Advocate of India invited me to contribute to its columns a narrative of the rise, growth and collapse...

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The New York Stock Exchange; a Discussion of the Business Done, Its Relation to Other Business, To Investment, Speculation and Gambling by H S Martin

FOREWORD The New York Stock Exchange can The be said to have been begun 125 years. Beginning ago 100 years of which it has...

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The Essential Features of Securities by Byron Webber Holt

What Our Problem Is There are available for purchase or sale securities of the widest possible variety, issued by countless corporations, municipalities, states, nations,...

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Twenty-One Years in the Boston Stock Market by Joseph Gregory Martin

PREFATORY REMARKS In the present work the compiler has aimed to furnish a full and reliable history of the several stocks in the Boston...

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The Stock Market Barometer : A Study of Its Forecast Value Based on Charles H. Dow’s Theory of the Price Movement

CYCLES AND STOCK MARKET RECORDS AN English economist whose unaffected humanity always made him remarkably readable, the late William Stanley Jevons, propounded the theory...

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