The history of gold and silver

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The history of gold and silver

edited by Lawrence H. White

Pickering & Chatto, 2000

  • v. 1
  • v. 2
  • v. 3

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History of gold and silver

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Vol. 1. 1355-1828 -- v. 2. 1844-1873 -- v. 3. 1868-1895

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This set of three volumes are arranged both chronologically and thematically and collects together material debating the setting up of Gold, Silver and Bimetal standards and the various systems devised and implemented.

Table of Contents

  • Volume 1 Nicholas Oresme, De Moneta (Of Currency) (c. 1355) translated by Charles Johnson (1956)
  • Bernardo Davanzati, A Discourse Upon Coins (1588) translated by John Toland (1696)
  • Gerard Malynes, Consuetudo, vel, Lex Mercatoria
  • or, The Ancient Law-Merchant (1656)
  • W Fleetwood, A Sermon against Clipping (1694)
  • John Locke, Some Considerations of the Consequences of Lowering the Interest, and Raising the Value of Money (1696), two excerpts
  • Richard Temple, Some Short Remarks upon Mr. Locke's Book (1696)
  • Charles Jenkinson (Lord Liverpool), A Treatise on the Coins of the Realm (1805)
  • Nassau Senior, Transmission of the Precious Metals from Country to Country (1828) Volume 2 James Mill, Elements of Political Economy, 3rd edition (1844)
  • Nassau Senior, Three Lectures on the Value of Money (1840)
  • John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, 5th edition (1893)
  • Michel Chevalier, Remarks on the Production of the Precious Metals and on the Depreciation of Gold, translated by D Forbes Campbell (1853)
  • John Cairnes, The Course of Depreciation (1858)
  • John Cairnes, International Results (1860)
  • William Stanley Jevons, A Serious Fall in the Value of Gold Ascertained, and its Social Effects Set Forth (1863)
  • Walter Bagehot, The Effect of the Gold Discoveries, More Especially Upon Men of Business (1863)
  • Walter Bagehot, The Depreciation of Gold Since 1848 (1872-3) Volume 3 William Stanley Jevons, On the International Monetary Convention and the Introduction of an International Currency into this Kingdom (1868)
  • Robert Giffen, The General Case Against Bimetallism (1879)
  • Robert Giffen, On Some Bimetallic Fallacies (1886)
  • Henry Dunning MacLeod, Bimetallism (1894)
  • William Hope Harvey and J Laurence Laughlin, The Harvey-Laughlin Debate (1895)
  • Francis A Walker, International Bimetallism (1896)
  • J Laurence Laughlin, The History of Bimetallism in the United States, 4th edn. (1897)
  • Bonamy Price, The Principles of Currency, 'The Money Market and Gold' (1869)
  • Edward Atkinson, The Banking Principle (1895)

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