Political Economy for High Schools and AcademiesGinn, 1895 - 108 стор. |
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... dollar for a square mile of the Amazon valley , which is the most fertile soil in the world . No doubt it will yet become the most valuable through conquest of nature's forces by labor . At present an acre of New Hampshire , with the ...
... dollar for a square mile of the Amazon valley , which is the most fertile soil in the world . No doubt it will yet become the most valuable through conquest of nature's forces by labor . At present an acre of New Hampshire , with the ...
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... The law made the Silver dollar , containing 371.25 grains of pure Silver , the unit of value . This figure was reached by comparing a number of Spanish Silver dollars , and taking their average POLITICAL ECONOMY . 43.
... The law made the Silver dollar , containing 371.25 grains of pure Silver , the unit of value . This figure was reached by comparing a number of Spanish Silver dollars , and taking their average POLITICAL ECONOMY . 43.
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... dollar heavier , but by diminishing the number of grains in the Gold dollar . 6. In the meantime England had adopted a new policy . After a long suspension of specie payments during the war with France , she resumed the use of coin in ...
... dollar heavier , but by diminishing the number of grains in the Gold dollar . 6. In the meantime England had adopted a new policy . After a long suspension of specie payments during the war with France , she resumed the use of coin in ...
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... dollar , and stopped the coinage of the former by law . Since that time two ineffectual attempts have been made to restore the credit of Silver , first by a limited coinage , at the ratio : 16 , and then by large purchases of the metal ...
... dollar , and stopped the coinage of the former by law . Since that time two ineffectual attempts have been made to restore the credit of Silver , first by a limited coinage , at the ratio : 16 , and then by large purchases of the metal ...
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... dollar , the difference is very considerable . But coin is money which passes for little more than the worth of the metal it is made of . 2. Besides this we have representative money of several kinds . The simplest form that we often ...
... dollar , the difference is very considerable . But coin is money which passes for little more than the worth of the metal it is made of . 2. Besides this we have representative money of several kinds . The simplest form that we often ...
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ad valorem Adam Smith America amount balance of trade bank-notes better capitalist CHAPTER cheap classes clothing coin coinage commodities consumer cost cotton crops debt demand direct tax discount duty employers employment England English Europe exchange export fall famines farmer farming favor foreign commerce free competition Free Trade GINN & COMPANY give Gold and Silver greenbacks growth Holy Alliance imports improvement increase India industries interest Ireland issue keep kind labor expended land less machinery manufactures ment metals National natural needed neighborhood nomic notes paid paper money payment Political Economy poorer population produce profits Protection Protectionist railroads rates schools Scotch banks secure sell ships Silver and Gold Silver Certificate social society soil Spain square mile supply Tariff taxation tends things tillage Treasury true unearned increment wages wheat workingmen workmen
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