Posts Tagged ‘ Political Economics ’

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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Elements of Political Economy by Samuel Philips Newman

May 22, 2010

Introduction Men are seen in their most improved condition, when associated together in large communities. The excitements of competition are then most strongly felt — enterprise and exertion are called forth and liberally rewarded. It is then that leisure and opportunity are found for the exercise and improvement of the mental powers ; thus...

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Elements of Political Economy by James Mill

May 22, 2010

Preface There are few things of which I have occasion to advertize the Reader, before he enters upon the perusal of the following Work. My object has been to compose a school-book of Political Economy; to detach the essential principles of the science from all extraneous topics, to state the propositions clearly and in...

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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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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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Global Imbalances and Developing Countries: Remedies for a Failing International Financial System

February 12, 2010

Contents, Abbreviations & Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction Jan Joost Teunissen 2 Global Imbalances and the Implications for Africa Louis Kasekende 3 East Asia’s Role in Resolving the New Global Imbalances Masaru Yoshitomi, Li-Gang Liu and Willem Thorbecke 4 An African Perspective: Comments on Yoshitomi, Liu and Thorbecke Brian Kahn 5 Rebalancing Savings-Investment Gaps...

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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 Study on the Central Bank of Japan by Itsuo Hamaoka

February 9, 2010
A Study on the Central Bank of Japan by Itsuo Hamaoka

INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY THE AUTHOR The attention of the people of the United States at the present time is drawn, with ever increasing interest, to the commercial and financial institutions of foreign countries. This is due, primarily, to the fact that the industrial growth of this country has brought her to the point when...

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Once Upon A Dime Comic Book- Federal Reserve Bank of New York

February 9, 2010
Once Upon A Dime Comic Book- Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Federal Reserve Bank of New York Presents a fable about the island kingdom of Mazuma and the growth of its economy from barter to a sophisticated modern system, with its own central bank, to illustrate basic concepts of barter, money, banking, and inflation. Please Activate the Full Screen Mode for Better Viewing Pleasure (2nd...

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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 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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