Money and the Mechanism of ExchangeH.S. King & Company, 1876 - 349 páginas |
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... consist of three pigs , twenty - three turkeys , forty - four chickens , five thousand cocoa - nuts , besides considerable quantities of bananas , lemons , and oranges . At the Halle in Paris , as the prima donna remarks in her lively ...
... consist of three pigs , twenty - three turkeys , forty - four chickens , five thousand cocoa - nuts , besides considerable quantities of bananas , lemons , and oranges . At the Halle in Paris , as the prima donna remarks in her lively ...
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... consist in giving so many units of one thing for so many units of another , each measured in its appropriate way . Every act of exchange thus presents itself to us in the form of a ratio between two numbers . The word value is commonly ...
... consist in giving so many units of one thing for so many units of another , each measured in its appropriate way . Every act of exchange thus presents itself to us in the form of a ratio between two numbers . The word value is commonly ...
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... consists in some sort of cattle . The fifth and sixth lectures in Sir H. S. Maine's most interesting work on " The Early History of Institu- tions , " which has just been published , are full of curious information showing the ...
... consists in some sort of cattle . The fifth and sixth lectures in Sir H. S. Maine's most interesting work on " The Early History of Institu- tions , " which has just been published , are full of curious information showing the ...
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... consists of gold or not , by looking for three charac- teristic marks : ( 1 ) the brilliant yellow colour ; ( 2 ) the high specific gravity ; ( 3 ) the metallic ring of the coin when thrown down , which will prove the absence of lead or ...
... consists of gold or not , by looking for three charac- teristic marks : ( 1 ) the brilliant yellow colour ; ( 2 ) the high specific gravity ; ( 3 ) the metallic ring of the coin when thrown down , which will prove the absence of lead or ...
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... consist of the aes rude , or rough , shapeless lumps of native copper employed as money by the ancient Etruscans . In the Museum of the Archiginnasio at Bologna may be seen the skeleton of an Etruscan , half embedded in earth , with the ...
... consist of the aes rude , or rough , shapeless lumps of native copper employed as money by the ancient Etruscans . In the Museum of the Archiginnasio at Bologna may be seen the skeleton of an Etruscan , half embedded in earth , with the ...
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adopted alloy amount arise average balance Bank of England bank-notes bankers barter bills Boulton and Watt bronze bullion cash cent centimes CHAPTER Cheque and Clearing Cheque Bank circulation Clearing House clearing system coinage commodities convenient copper debt decimal demand deposit depreciated dollar double standard employed English exactly exist foreign France French German gold and silver gold coins grains grams Gresham's Law inconveniences inconvertible interest issued kind legal tender less London London Clearing House loss measure of value medium of exchange ment merchants metallic currency metallic money metallic value method millions money of account nations nominal value ounce paid paper currency paper money payment pence penny person pound pound sterling principal profit quantity ratio receive representative money reserve seignorage shilling silver coin sovereign standard of value tion token coins token money trade transactions unit of value weight Wolowski
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