Money and the Mechanism of ExchangeH.S. King & Company, 1876 - 349 páginas |
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... passed on , so that if all people could be induced to take worthless bits of material at a fixed rate of valuation , it might seem that money does not really require to have substantial value . Something like this does frequently happen ...
... passed on , so that if all people could be induced to take worthless bits of material at a fixed rate of valuation , it might seem that money does not really require to have substantial value . Something like this does frequently happen ...
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... passed about in trade , and kept in reserve , money must not be subject to easy deteriora- tion or loss . It must not evaporate like alcohol , nor putrefy like animal substances , nor decay like wood , nor rust like iron . Destructible ...
... passed about in trade , and kept in reserve , money must not be subject to easy deteriora- tion or loss . It must not evaporate like alcohol , nor putrefy like animal substances , nor decay like wood , nor rust like iron . Destructible ...
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... passed by weight for small payments . The extreme softness of the metal obviously renders it quite unfit for coining in the pure state . It is one of the components of pewter , which has frequently been coined . Tin . Tin has also been ...
... passed by weight for small payments . The extreme softness of the metal obviously renders it quite unfit for coining in the pure state . It is one of the components of pewter , which has frequently been coined . Tin . Tin has also been ...
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... passed purely by tale , or number of pieces . Gold is most readily obtained from alluvial deposits , and then has the form of grains or dust . Hence this is the primitive form of gold money . The ancient Peruvians enclosed the gold dust ...
... passed purely by tale , or number of pieces . Gold is most readily obtained from alluvial deposits , and then has the form of grains or dust . Hence this is the primitive form of gold money . The ancient Peruvians enclosed the gold dust ...
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... passed by tale , was often weighed . In the ancient college accounts which he has investigated , he finds charges entered both for the cost of scales to make the weighings , and for the deficiency of weight of the coins . In many ...
... passed by tale , was often weighed . In the ancient college accounts which he has investigated , he finds charges entered both for the cost of scales to make the weighings , and for the deficiency of weight of the coins . In many ...
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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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