Essays in finance: first and second series
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- Essays in finance: first and second series
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- 1890
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Essays in finance: first and second series
Author: Giffen, Robert, Sir, 1837-1910
Year: 1890
Vol. 1. Cost of Franco-German War, 1870-71; Depreciation of gold since 1848; Liquidations of 1873-76; Why the depression of trade is so much greater in raw material producing countries than in the manufacturing countries; Foreign competition; Excess of imports; Recent accumulations of capital in the United Kingdom; Notes on the depreciation of silver; Mr. Gladstone's work in finance; Taxes on land; Reduction of the national debt; Taxation and representation of Ireland; Case against bimetallism; Fall of prices of commodities in recent years.- Vol. 2. Trade depression and low prices; Gold supply; The rate of discount and prices; Effects on trade of the supply of coinage; Bank reserves; Foreign trade of the United States; Use of import and export statistics; Foreign manufactures and English trade; Utility of common statistics; Some general uses of statistical knowledge; Progress of the working classes in the last half-century; Further notes on the progress of the working-classes
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