Posts Tagged ‘ History ’

Germany’s economic power of resistance, by Prof. Gustav Cassel

May 22, 2010

INTRODUCTION The results I have reached by my observations and inquiries made, and from the study of the material placed before me, cannot, in consequence of the inadequateness of this material, lay claim to being fully scientific, but the present investigation may so far claim a scientific character, that I have endeavored by its...

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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 Financial Chapter in the History of Bombay City

May 18, 2010

In 1897 the Editor of the Advocate of India invited me to contribute to its columns a narrative of the rise, growth and collapse of that colossal speculation popularly known in Bombay as the ” share mania,” a mania which in its ultimate consequences was more disastrous than either the South Sea Bubble Scheme,...

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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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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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Lectures On The History And Principles Of Ancient Commerce by William Gilbart

March 22, 2010

PREFACE by the Author These Lectures were delivered at Waterford, in the beginning of the year 1833. At that time I held the office of Manager of the Waterford branch of the Provincial Bank of Ireland. When residing in London I had assisted at the formation of the City of London Literary and Scientific...

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History of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of Banking in All Parts of the World

March 22, 2010

BANK, Bankers, Banking. The term bank has two distinct significations; one in reference to commerce, implying a place of deposit or store-house ; the other relating to geography and rural economy, implying an elevation of the earth, either natural or artificial; and either below or above the surface of the water, in rivers as...

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Banks and People by Thomas Farrow

March 17, 2010

PREFACE By The Author AS a general principle I am opposed to the Preface. I do not believe in telling people what I propose to say; I prefer to say it. But there are cases where an introduction proves a useful and illuminating adjunct to a book. In the present instance it serves a...

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Banking Reform; An Essay On Prominent Banking Dangers by AJ Wilson

March 17, 2010

PREFACE By the Author The following pages deal with some of the practical questions at issue in modern English Banking, and with these alone. They are of the highest importance at the present time, and yet signs are not wanting that the lessons which recent events might have been expected to teach are being...

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Banking Progress by Laurence Laughlin

March 17, 2010

PREFACE The story of growth, a progress from a lower to a higher plane, is always of absorbing interest in any field. In the evolution of our thinking on banking we have the complement to the history of our monetary development out of the greenback and silver stages. Although the two phases of progress...

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Banks’ Cash Reserves – Threadneedle street; a reply to “Lombard street” (by the late Mr. Walter Bagehot)

March 15, 2010

INTRODUCTION. There are times when a merchant will make almost any sacrifice to obtain ready money. He has entered into no rash speculations, and has only to meet the ordinary legitimate demands of his business, but in order to do so he is suddenly called upon to make a heavy and unexpected loss. To...

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Banking For Beginners by J. F. Ebersole

March 15, 2010

A successful banker is composed of about one-fifth accountant, two-fifths lawyer, three-fifths political economist, and four-fifths gentleman and scholar — total ten-fifths — double size. Any smaller person may be a pawnbroker or a promoter, but not a banker. — George E. Allen. LINK http://bikibook.com/books/banking-for-beginners/ EMBED

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An Analysis and History of the Currency Question by T. Joplin

March 9, 2010

People frequently act in haste, and repent at leisure. In this case, there was no cause for repentance. But it naturally led to reflection, and it appeared to me, that instead of coming forward in times of such danger, and blindly entering into an obligation, so unlimited, in favour of Banks, which, for any...

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A Hundred Years of American Commerce Vol 2

March 2, 2010

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF AMERICAN COMMERCE CONSISTING OF ONE HUNDRED ORIGINAL ARTICLES ON COMMERCIAL TOPICS DESCRIBING THE PRACTICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF TRADE IN THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE PAST CENTURY AND SHOWING THE PRESENT MAGNITUDE OF OUR FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL INSTITUTIONS WITH A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF THE IMPORTANT EVENTS OF AMERICAN...

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An Essay On The Principle of Population : or, A View of Its Past and Present Effects on Human Happiness : With an Inquiry into Our Prospects Respecting the Future Removal or Mitigation of the Evils Which It Occasions Vol. 3

February 10, 2010

CONTENTS OF THE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OR EXPEDIENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN PROPOSED OR HAVE PREVAILED IN SOCIETY, AS THEY AFFECT THE EVILS ARISING FROM THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION. (Continued) XIII. Of increasing Wealth, as it affects the Condition of the Poor XIV. General Observations BOOK IV. OF OUR FUTURE PROSPECTS RESPECTING THE REMOVAL OR MITIGATION...

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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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