David Ricardo

Proposals for an Economical and Secure Currency

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work, published in 1816 and followed by this second edition the same year, considers the problem of the national debt, and whether paper money should in principle be exchanged for gold bullion rather than for minted coins. Ricardo also suggests here the creation of an independent national bank.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 138
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 198g
• ISBN-13: 9781108075459
• ISBN-10: 1108075452
• Artikelnr.: 41608170

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. In the medium of circulation
2. Use of a standard commodity
3. The standard, its imperfections
4. An expedient
5. A practice which creates a great mass of mercantile inconvenience
6. The public services of the Bank excessively over-paid
7. Bank profits and savings
Appendix.