Some considerations of the consequences of lowering the interest and raising the value of money (Letter to a member of Parliament. 1691.) Short observations on a printed paper entitled, 'For encouraging the coining silver money in England' ... Further considerations concerning raising the value of money. Two treatises of governmentC. and J. Rivington, 1824 |
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... pounds at once . The same reasons , I suppose , will still keep on the same trade ; and when you have taken it down by law to that rate , nobody will think of having more than four per cent . of the banker ; though those who have need ...
... pounds at once . The same reasons , I suppose , will still keep on the same trade ; and when you have taken it down by law to that rate , nobody will think of having more than four per cent . of the banker ; though those who have need ...
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... pounds were sufficient to manage the trade of Bermudas , and that the ten first planters carried over twenty thousand pounds , which they lent to the several tradesmen and inhabitants of the country , who living above their gains , had ...
... pounds were sufficient to manage the trade of Bermudas , and that the ten first planters carried over twenty thousand pounds , which they lent to the several tradesmen and inhabitants of the country , who living above their gains , had ...
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... pounds richer , and our stock be so much increased : but , if we import more consumable commodities , than we export , our money must go out to pay for them , and we grow poorer . Suppose , therefore , ill - husbandry hath brought us to ...
... pounds richer , and our stock be so much increased : but , if we import more consumable commodities , than we export , our money must go out to pay for them , and we grow poorer . Suppose , therefore , ill - husbandry hath brought us to ...
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John Locke. forty thousand pounds per ann . though it pay sixty thou- sand pounds per ann . use . So that , if the merchant's return be more than his use ( which it is certain it is , or else he will not trade ) , and all that is so ...
John Locke. forty thousand pounds per ann . though it pay sixty thou- sand pounds per ann . use . So that , if the merchant's return be more than his use ( which it is certain it is , or else he will not trade ) , and all that is so ...
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... pounds worth of goods can no - where pay two hundred pounds in money . This being that which I find many men deceive them- selves with , in trade , it may be worth while to make it a little plainer . Let us suppose England , peopled as ...
... pounds worth of goods can no - where pay two hundred pounds in money . This being that which I find many men deceive them- selves with , in trade , it may be worth while to make it a little plainer . Let us suppose England , peopled as ...
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