 | William Stanley Jevons - 1863 - 94 стор.
...rendering the value greater, and the weight or quantity to be carried as money less. It is only so far as the cheapening of gold renders it more available for...indirect effects of these discoveries, in creating newcolonies, spreading the English people and language, and newly animating commerce, is not easy.... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1884 - 522 стор.
...rendering the value greater, and the weight or quantity to be carried as money less. It is only so far as the cheapening of gold renders it more available for...gilding and for plate, for purposes of ornament, and for use in other ways than as money, that we can be said to gain directly from the gold discoveries.... | |
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To overestimate the indirect effects of these discoveries, in creating new colonies, spreading the English people and language, and newly animating commerce, is not easy. But in itself gold-digging has ever seemed to me almost a dead loss of labour as... 