The case for gold / edited by William Rees-Mogg.

Contributor Malynes, Gerard de, fl. 1526-1641.

Imprint:London ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : Pickering & Chatto, 2002.

Description3 v. ; 24 cm.

Note:Excerpts from works by economists originally published between 1601-1965.

Note:Vol. 1: -A treatise of the canker of England's commonwealth / Gerard de Malynes - Consequences of the lowering of interest, and raising the value of money / John Locke - Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary (excerpt) / David Hume - Essay on the nature of trade in general (excerpt) / Richard Dantillo - Enquiry into the names and effects of the paper credit of Great Britain / Henry Thornton.

Note:Vol. 2: - Report, together with minutes of evidence, and accounts, from the Select Committee on the High Price of Gold Bullion / Francis Horner - Depreciation of paper currency / Thomas Robert Malthus - High price of bullion, a proof of the depreciation of bank notes / David Ricardo - Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy / John Stuart Mill - The theory of the foreign exchanges (excerpt) / George Goschen - Money and the mechanism of exchange (excerpt) / W. Stanley Jevons.

Note:Vol. 3: - Investigations in currency & finance (excerpt) / W. Stanley Jevons - On the origins of money / Carl Menger - Lectures on political economy (excerpt) / Knut Wicksell - The theory of money and credit (excerpt) / Ludwig von Mises - Money (excerpt) / D.H. Robertson - The gold standard in theory and practice / R.G. Hawtrey - The case for a 100 percent gold dollar / Murray N. Rothbard - The role and the rule of gold: an argument / Jacques Rueff and Fred Hirsch.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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