The Theory and Practice of Banking, Volumen2

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Longmans, Green and Company, 1876

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Par of Exchange between England and Ireland
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Incorrect to say that the Act of 1844 is the complement
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Discussion between Mr Hume and Lord Overstone
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Tooke on Currency
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Colonel Torrens on Currency
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Examination of the modern opinions on Currency
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Their description of the extraordinary debasement of the Irish
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Consequences of these doctrines
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Opinion of M Michel Chevalier
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Opinion of Mr Marshall that Irish Bank notes were depre
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Fatal conduct of the Bank of England at this period
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Bills or Notes may be a gift causâ mortis
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The Committee do not discuss the new theory of paper
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Policy of the Bank
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Fundamental vice of the constitution of the Bank of England 259
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Speculative manias have occurred both before and afterwards
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On Banking Obligations
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Judicious conduct of the Bank during this drain
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Report of 1810 identical in principle with that of 1804
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Adam Smith the parent of both these currency fallacies
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Discussion of the points of difference
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currency
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Another illustration
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Mr Horsley Palmers description of the method adopted
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Perverse opposition to this law of nature
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The Banks privilege held not to exclude the formation
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Great destruction of country bank paper in 1816 rise in
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Absurdity of
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Decline of bullion in the Bank in 1836
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The same continued
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Position of the Bank in March 1838
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The same continued
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Appointment of the Committee on Banks of Issue in 1840
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The same continued
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Speech of Mr Huskisson
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CHAPTER
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Mismanagement of the Bank in 1818
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Great drain of Bullion in 181819appointment of Committee
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Opinion of Mr Ward Director of the Bank
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Opinion of Mr Baring
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ON THE BUSINESS OF BANKING
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Act to prohibit the Bank making advances to Government
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