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Subject(s)

• Economics [Browse]
• Say, Jean Baptiste 1767-1832 [Browse]

Series

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; 151. [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Gilles Jacoud
• Extracts from the Catechism of political economy / Jean-Baptiste Say
• Of money
• Of the representative signs of money
• Of monies : extracts from the complete course in practical political economy / Jean-Baptiste Say
• Of the nature and uses of money
• Of the material of money
• Of the foundation of the value of monies
• Why the value of silver did not decrease more following the discovery of America
• Of the relative value of different metals used as money
• Of the manufacture of metallic monies
• Of the profit it is possible to make from the manufacture of coinage
• Of the attempts which have been made to have a measure of values
• Of the value of precious metals compared with that of wheat, from ancient times
• Evaluation of historical amounts
• Of paper monies
• Of the representative signs of money : extracts from the complete course in practical political economy / Jean-Baptiste Say
• General characteristics of representative signs
• Of trust notes and banks of circulation
• Abuse of banks of circulation
• Of deposit banks and party transfers
• Of promissory notes, bills of exchange and foreign exchange
• Extracts from a Treatise on Political Economy / Jean-Baptiste Say
• Extracts from editions 1, 2 and 3 of a Treatise on political economy
• Extracts from editions 5 and 6 of a Treatise on political economy
• Manuscripts, notes and varied texts / Jean-Baptiste Say
• Tribunat : report made on behalf of the finance section on the projected law concerning the recoinage of monies
• Notes on Henri Storch's Cours d'économie politique
• Of the commercial crisis in England
• Extracts from correspondence
• Plan for a new money in Ricardo's style
• Of the debasement of monies
• Chronological table / Gilles Jacoud.

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ISBN

• 9780415677370 (hb)
• 0415677378 (hb)
• 9780203075050 (eb)
• 0203075056 (eb)

LCCN

2012025711

OCLC

794041112

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