Money and Its Laws: Embracing a History of Monetary Theories, and a History of the Currencies of the United States |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 84
Page vii
... kind of property .. · This universal desire renders them the universal equivalent -MONEY The grounds of this preference , their beauty and the uses to which they can be applied . . . Other qualities fitting them to serve as money ...
... kind of property .. · This universal desire renders them the universal equivalent -MONEY The grounds of this preference , their beauty and the uses to which they can be applied . . . Other qualities fitting them to serve as money ...
Page xvi
... kind " . 165 Their interest directly opposed to that of the great body of the people If these assertions be true , the greater the freedom of trade , the greater the monopoly 165 165 " The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen " have ...
... kind " . 165 Their interest directly opposed to that of the great body of the people If these assertions be true , the greater the freedom of trade , the greater the monopoly 165 165 " The sneaking arts of underling tradesmen " have ...
Page xvii
... kind of property Stewart a striking example of the weakness and folly of the Schoolmen BANK OF ENGLAND - THE BULLION REPORT , 1810 . Suspension of the Bank of England • 180 180 181 • 182 Historical sketch of the Bank 183 Its ...
... kind of property Stewart a striking example of the weakness and folly of the Schoolmen BANK OF ENGLAND - THE BULLION REPORT , 1810 . Suspension of the Bank of England • 180 180 181 • 182 Historical sketch of the Bank 183 Its ...
Page xxiii
... kind 309 Note issue a monopoly in England . 310 • Folly of the restriction . . 310 Suspension of the Act approved by the officers of the Bank 311 Cause of the failure of the Bank 311 THOMAS TOOKE . Before the Committee of 1840 313 The ...
... kind 309 Note issue a monopoly in England . 310 • Folly of the restriction . . 310 Suspension of the Act approved by the officers of the Bank 311 Cause of the failure of the Bank 311 THOMAS TOOKE . Before the Committee of 1840 313 The ...
Page 2
... kind of merchandise or prop- erty not required for his own present use or consumption , has always sought to exchange it therefor , from the certainty of being able , by its means , to obtain whatever he might wish to acquire . Of all ...
... kind of merchandise or prop- erty not required for his own present use or consumption , has always sought to exchange it therefor , from the certainty of being able , by its means , to obtain whatever he might wish to acquire . Of all ...
Contents
1 | |
2 | |
4 | |
7 | |
8 | |
10 | |
13 | |
19 | |
299 | |
306 | |
313 | |
318 | |
327 | |
333 | |
341 | |
352 | |
22 | |
27 | |
31 | |
39 | |
46 | |
52 | |
57 | |
70 | |
81 | |
90 | |
103 | |
109 | |
115 | |
121 | |
126 | |
129 | |
135 | |
142 | |
143 | |
149 | |
160 | |
166 | |
169 | |
172 | |
180 | |
181 | |
187 | |
189 | |
190 | |
193 | |
199 | |
202 | |
208 | |
209 | |
212 | |
214 | |
216 | |
223 | |
229 | |
235 | |
241 | |
247 | |
257 | |
266 | |
269 | |
272 | |
274 | |
281 | |
288 | |
293 | |
295 | |
360 | |
368 | |
369 | |
375 | |
381 | |
388 | |
396 | |
398 | |
402 | |
410 | |
415 | |
417 | |
421 | |
427 | |
428 | |
430 | |
433 | |
436 | |
442 | |
443 | |
448 | |
454 | |
455 | |
459 | |
460 | |
466 | |
471 | |
477 | |
483 | |
489 | |
505 | |
509 | |
517 | |
523 | |
528 | |
530 | |
536 | |
539 | |
553 | |
560 | |
567 | |
573 | |
579 | |
581 | |
585 | |
588 | |
596 | |
610 | |
616 | |
617 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accommodation bills Adam Smith amount of coin Aristotle assumed Bank of England bank-notes bankers bills given bills of exchange borrowers bullion capital circulation Committee commodities consequently consumers consumption contraction convertible corresponding amount cost country Banks debt demand deposits depreciated discharge discount distribution Economists effect equal excess exchange exports foreign gold and silver greater hand holders Hume immediately inconvertible increase industry issuers kind labor latter liabilities loans Lord Overstone loss means ment merchandise merchant methods nature necessary never notes and credits operations paid paper currency paper money parties payable payment Political Economy possessed precious metals principle produce profit proper purchase quantity question ratio reason received reduced rency represent reserves rule says securities sell Smith specie speedily supply supposed symbolic currency theory thing tion trade transactions usury value of money Wealth of Nations whole wholly
Popular passages
Page 477 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common Judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 509 - Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 11 - And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
Page 469 - That every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes, by force of the term, a right to employ all the means requisite and fairly applicable to the attainment of the ends of such power, and which are not precluded by restrictions and exceptions specified in the Constitution, or not immoral, or not contrary to the essential ends of political society.
Page 492 - Waiving the question of the constitutional authority of the Legislature to establish an incorporated bank as being precluded in my judgment by repeated recognitions under varied circumstances of the validity of such an institution in acts of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the Government, accompanied by indications, in different modes, of a concurrence of the general will of the nation...
Page 466 - I do not conceive we can exist long as a nation without having lodged somewhere a power, which will pervade the whole Union in as energetic a manner as the authority of the State governments extends over the several States.
Page 2 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from thence it was parted and became into four heads.
Page 466 - If you tell the legislatures, they have violated the treaty of peace, and invaded the prerogatives of the confederacy, they will laugh in your face.
Page 476 - Resolved, that the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Page 277 - The history of what we are in the habit of calling the " state of trade " is an instructive lesson. We find it subject to various conditions which are periodically returning ; it revolves apparently in an established cycle. First we find it in a state of quiescence, — next improvement, — growing confidence, — prosperity, — excitement, — overtrading, — convulsion, — pressure, — stagnation, — distress, — ending again in quiescence.