Money and Its Relations to Prices: Being an Inquiry Into the Causes, Measurements, and Effects of Changes in General Prices

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Swan Sonnenschein, 1896 - 200 pagina's
 

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Pagina 68 - I should say, has already a most powerfully beneficial effect. It loosens the country, as nothing else could, from its old bonds of debt and habit. It throws increased rewards before all who are making and acquiring wealth, somewhat at the expense of those who are enjoying acquired wealth. It excites the active and skilful classes of the community to new exertions...
Pagina 11 - Labour alone, therefore, never varying in its own value, is alone the ultimate and real standard by which the value of all commodities can at all times and places be estimated and compared.
Pagina 70 - The discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope...
Pagina 13 - Chronicon Preciosum: or, an Account of English Gold and Silver Money; the Price of Corn and other Commodities; and of Stipends, Salaries, Wages, Jointures, Portions, Day-labour etc.

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