19th Century · English
A Treatise on Metallic and Paper Money and Banks
A Treatise on Metallic and Paper Money and Banks, by John Ramsay McCulloch (1789–1864), a public-domain text from Liberty Fund's Online Library of Liberty.
Chapters
- 01Part I.—: Metallic Money, Sect. I.—: Circumstances which led to the use of Money. Principal properties which all Commodiprose
- 02Sect. II.—: Circumstances which Regulate the Exchangeable Value of Money.prose
- 03Sect. III.—: A Moderate Seignorage on Coined Money advantageous. Principles which should regulate its amount.prose
- 04Sect. IV.—: Expense of a Currency consisting of the Precious Metals.prose
- 05Sect. V.—: How Paper is substituted for Coins, and its value maintained.prose
- 06Sect. VI.—: Whether Gold or Silver should be adopted as the Standard of the Currency, or whether it should consist of boprose
- 07Sect. VII.—: Standard of Money. Duodecimal and Decimal systems of dividing Coins. Degradation of Coins in Rome, France, prose
- 08Part Ii.—: Paper-money, Sect. I.—: General Principles in regard to Paper-Money.prose
- 09Sect. II.—: Banks of Deposit and Banks of Issue. Principles on which they are established.prose
- 10Sect. III.—: Bank of England, Account of.prose
- 11Sect. IV.—: Private and Joint-Stock Banks.prose
- 12Sect. V.—: Act of 1844. Objections to and Defence of that Act. Suspensions of in 1847 and 1857.prose
- 13Sect. VI.: Management of the Bank of England.prose
- 14Sect. VII.—: Banks (Scotch).prose
- 15Sect. VIII.—: Banking in Ireland.prose
- 16Sect. IX.—: Banks of Venice, Amsterdam, &c.prose
- 17Sect. X.—: The Bank of France,prose
- 18Sect. XI.—: Banking in the United States.prose