An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2William Allason, and J. Maynard, and W. Blair, 1819 - Economics |
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... the Advantages which Europe has derived from the Discovery of America , and from that of a Passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope 433 APPENDIX . Account of Herring Busses fitted out in Scotland CONTENTS .
... the Advantages which Europe has derived from the Discovery of America , and from that of a Passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope 433 APPENDIX . Account of Herring Busses fitted out in Scotland CONTENTS .
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... America , paper was commonly issued for so small a sum as a shilling , and filled almost the whole of that circulation . In some paper currencies of Yorkshire , it was issued even for so small a sum as a sixpence . Where the issuing of ...
... America , paper was commonly issued for so small a sum as a shilling , and filled almost the whole of that circulation . In some paper currencies of Yorkshire , it was issued even for so small a sum as a sixpence . Where the issuing of ...
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... America , it banishes gold and silver almost entirely from the country ; almost all the ordinary transac- tions of its interior commerce being thus carried on by paper . The suppression of ten and five shilling bank notes , somewhat ...
... America , it banishes gold and silver almost entirely from the country ; almost all the ordinary transac- tions of its interior commerce being thus carried on by paper . The suppression of ten and five shilling bank notes , somewhat ...
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... America consisted not in bank notes , payable to the bearer on demand , but in a government paper , of which the payment was not exigible till several years after it was is- sued ; and though the colony governments paid no interest to ...
... America consisted not in bank notes , payable to the bearer on demand , but in a government paper , of which the payment was not exigible till several years after it was is- sued ; and though the colony governments paid no interest to ...
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... America . In each of those periods , however , there was not only much private and public profusion , many expen- sive and unnecessary wars , great perversion of the annual produce from maintaining productive to main- tain unproductive ...
... America . In each of those periods , however , there was not only much private and public profusion , many expen- sive and unnecessary wars , great perversion of the annual produce from maintaining productive to main- tain unproductive ...
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