Hidden fields
Books Books
" Street is to say that it is by far the greatest combination of economical power and economical delicacy that the world has ever seen. "
Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market - Page 4
by Walter Bagehot - 2007 - 404 pages
Limited preview - About this book

The Quarterly Review, Volume 136

English literature - 1874 - 618 pages
...maintenance and management of this vital function of the cash reserve. Lombard Street is defined as the ' by far the greatest combination of economical power...economical delicacy that the world has ever seen.' Few persons, it is justly said, are aware how much greater the money power is in England than anywhere...
Full view - About this book

The Quarterly Review, Volume 136

English literature - 1874 - 606 pages
...maintenance and management of this vital function of the cash reserve. Lombard Street is defined as the ' by far the greatest combination of economical power...economical delicacy that the world has ever seen.' Few persons, it is justly said, are aware how much greater the money power is in England than anywhere...
Full view - About this book

The Quarterly Review, Volume 136

English literature - 1874 - 616 pages
...maintenance and management of this vital function of the cash reserve. Lombard Street is defined as the ' by far the greatest combination of economical power...economical delicacy that the world has ever seen.' Few persons, it is justly said, are aware Jtow muck greater the money power is in England than anywhere...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Walter Bagehot ...

Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 728 pages
...agencies ; so that those who have had enough of that well-worn theme (and they are very many) may not be wearied, and that the new and neglected parts of the...there will be no doubt : money is economical power ; every one is aware that England is the greatest moneyed country in the world, every one admits that...
Full view - About this book

A Short History of Political Economy in England: From Adam Smith to Arnold ...

Langford Lovell Price - Economics - 1891 - 226 pages
...and of it he gives an account in Lombard Street. He begins his book by describing Lombard Street as " by far the greatest combination of economical power...economical delicacy that the world has ever seen." Money,1 as every one will admit, is "economical power," and " England is the greatest moneyed country...
Full view - About this book

Banks and Banking

Harry Tucker Easton - Banks and banking - 1896 - 268 pages
...of this country is associated with the value of money. Mr. Bagehot has stated that "Lombard Street is by far the greatest combination of economical power...and economical delicacy that the world has ever seen ". It is the centre or the money market of the whole world. All demands for capital are supplied from...
Full view - About this book

The Journal of Political Economy, Volume 7

Economics - 1899 - 632 pages
...which it might operate. Bagehot, in describing the British money market, declared that it represented, "By far the greatest combination of economical power and economical delicacy that the world has 1 The Theory of Credit, vol. ip 22. ever seen." ' This power and delicacy it owes to the means which...
Full view - About this book

The Principles of Money and Banking: Book VI-The co-operation of the factors ...

Charles Arthur Conant - Banks and banking - 1905 - 510 pages
...which it might operate. Bagehot, in describing the British money-market, declared that it represented "by far the greatest combination of economical power...economical delicacy that the world has ever seen." ' This power and delicacy it owes to the means which credit affords for giving vitality to capital....
Full view - About this book

Money and Investments: A Reference Book for the Use of Those Desiring ...

Montgomery Rollins - Finance - 1907 - 486 pages
...associations are more correctly described by the former." Bagehot, writing of Lombard Street in 1873, said " that it is by far the greatest combination of economical...economical delicacy that the world has ever seen. . . . Money is economical power." One English financier — WR Lawson — says of Lombard Street:"...
Full view - About this book

Money and Investments; a Reference Book for the Use of Those Desiring ...

Montgomery Rollins - Finance - 1907 - 488 pages
...associations are more correctly described by the former." Bagehot, writing of Lombard Street in 1873, said " that it is by far the greatest combination of economical...economical delicacy that the world has ever seen. . . . Money is economical power." One English financier — WR Lawson — says of Lombard Street:"...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search