International BimetallismH. Holt, 1896 - 297 ページ |
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amount ANTHONY HOPE appreciation of gold Bank bimetal bimetallic system bimetallists break of gauge bullion cause cent century Chevalier circulation classes commercial commodities Conference of 1867 course currency demand demonetization of silver depreciation of silver diminishing discovery economic economists effect England Europe exchange export fact favor fluctuations force French Germany gold and silver gold prices gold standard Herschell Commission important increased India industry influence interest international bimetallism labor Large 12mo Latin Union legal ratio Léon Say less Lord Playfair Louis Mallet matter ment metal money mines money metals money-supply monometal monometallism monometallists nations nature operation par-of-exchange period political pounds sterling precious metals price of silver Prof profit question quoted regarding remarkable result rise rupee seigniorage silver coin silver-using Sir Robert Giffen Sir William Houldsworth supply tion trade treasure United value of gold vols wages
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67 ページ - But when the great instrument of exchange became thoroughly deranged, all trade, all industry, were smitten as with a palsy. The evil was felt daily and hourly in almost every place and by almost every class, in the dairy and on the threshing floor, by the anvil and by the loom, on the billows of the ocean and in the depths of the mine. Nothing could be purchased without a dispute. Over every counter there was wrangling from morning to night. The workman and his employer had a quarrel as regularly...
148 ページ - Accordingly we find, that, in every kingdom, into which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly, everything takes a new face : labour and industry gain life ; the merchant becomes more enterprising, the manufacturer more diligent and skilful, and even the farmer follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention.
148 ページ - ... the whole state, and makes its effect be felt on all ranks of people. At first, no alteration is perceived ; by degrees the price rises, first of one commodity, then of another ; till the whole at last reaches a just proportion with the new quantity of specie which is in the kingdom.
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215 ページ - To annul the use of either of the metals, as money, is to abridge the quantity of circulating medium ; and is liable to all the objections which arise from a comparison of the benefits of a full, with the evils of a scanty circulation.
148 ページ - But notwithstanding this conclusion which must be allowed just, it is certain that since the discovery of the mines in America, industry has increased in all the nations of Europe, except in the possessors of those mines; and this may justly be ascribed, amongst other reasons, to the increase of gold and silver.
200 ページ - ... were to accept and strictly adhere to bimetallism, at the suggested ratio. We think that if in all these countries gold and silver could be freely coined, and thus become exchangeable against commodities at the fixed ratio, the market value of silver as measured by gold would conform to that ratio, and not vary to any material extent.
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149 ページ - It is easy to trace the money in its progress through the whole commonwealth ; where we shall find, that it must first quicken the diligence of every individual, before it increase the price of labour.