Money and the Mechanism of ExchangeH.S. King & Company, 1876 - 349 páginas |
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... five songs . In the Society Islands , however , pieces of money were very scarce ; and as Mademoiselle could not consume any B considerable portion of the receipts herself , it became necessary CHAPTER I Utility and Value.
... five songs . In the Society Islands , however , pieces of money were very scarce ; and as Mademoiselle could not consume any B considerable portion of the receipts herself , it became necessary CHAPTER I Utility and Value.
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... pieces of cloth , arrack , or sago cakes , to multiply the chance that one or other article would suit the itinerant merchant . In modern civilized society the inconveniences of the primitive method of exchange are wholly unknown , and ...
... pieces of cloth , arrack , or sago cakes , to multiply the chance that one or other article would suit the itinerant merchant . In modern civilized society the inconveniences of the primitive method of exchange are wholly unknown , and ...
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... receive pay- ment in cider , or barley , or the use of a piece of land . It has always been usual for the miller to be paid by a portion of the corn which he grinds . The truck 6 MONEY . Want of Means of Subdivision BARTER.
... receive pay- ment in cider , or barley , or the use of a piece of land . It has always been usual for the miller to be paid by a portion of the corn which he grinds . The truck 6 MONEY . Want of Means of Subdivision BARTER.
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... Pieces of land are occasionally exchanged by adjoining landowners ; but all these are comparatively trifling cases . In almost all acts of exchange money now intervenes in one way or other , and even when it does not pass from hand to ...
... Pieces of land are occasionally exchanged by adjoining landowners ; but all these are comparatively trifling cases . In almost all acts of exchange money now intervenes in one way or other , and even when it does not pass from hand to ...
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... and places . * See a scarce tract , entitled " Two Letters to Mr. Wood on the Coin and Currency in the Leeward Islands , " p . 34. London , 1740 . Such are the pieces of cotton cloth , called Guinea EARLY HISTORY OF MONEY . 27.
... and places . * See a scarce tract , entitled " Two Letters to Mr. Wood on the Coin and Currency in the Leeward Islands , " p . 34. London , 1740 . Such are the pieces of cotton cloth , called Guinea EARLY HISTORY OF MONEY . 27.
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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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