Money and banking in Jean-Baptiste Say's economic thought / / Gilles Jacoud

• Autore: Jacoud Gilles.
• Pubblicazione: New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 332.101
• Soggetto topico: Economics
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Gilles Jacoud -- Extracts from the Catechism of political economy / Jean-Baptiste Say -- Of money -- Of the representative signs of money -- Of monies : extracts from the complete course in practical political economy / Jean-Baptiste Say -- Of the nature and uses of money -- Of the material of money -- Of the foundation of the value of monies -- Why the value of silver did not decrease more following the discovery of America -- Of the relative value of different metals used as money -- Of the manufacture of metallic monies -- Of the profit it is possible to make from the manufacture of coinage -- Of the attempts which have been made to have a measure of values -- Of the value of precious metals compared with that of wheat, from ancient times -- Evaluation of historical amounts -- Of paper monies -- Of the representative signs of money : extracts from the complete course in practical political economy / Jean-Baptiste Say -- General characteristics of representative signs -- Of trust notes and banks of circulation -- Abuse of banks of circulation -- Of deposit banks and party transfers -- Of promissory notes, bills of exchange and foreign exchange -- Extracts from a Treatise on Political Economy / Jean-Baptiste Say -- Extracts from editions 1, 2 and 3 of a Treatise on political economy -- Extracts from editions 5 and 6 of a Treatise on political economy -- Manuscripts, notes and varied texts / Jean-Baptiste Say -- Tribunat : report made on behalf of the finance section on the projected law concerning the recoinage of monies -- Notes on Henri Storch's Cours d'économie politique -- Of the commercial crisis in England -- Extracts from correspondence -- Plan for a new money in Ricardo's style -- Of deposit banks and party transfers -- Of the debasement of monies -- Chronological table / Gilles Jacoud.
• Sommario/riassunto: The aim of this work is to make available to English-language readers a translation of Jean-Baptiste Say's main texts on money and banking which were not at present accessible in English. The work includes chapters from his books taking into account the variants between the different editions, articles and hitherto unpublished manuscripts. Comprehension of these different texts is facilitated by an introduction designed to place them in their context and by a chronological table giving the main events of Say's life and editorial activity in parallel with the main political, economic
• Titolo autorizzato: Money and banking in Jean-Baptiste Say's economic thought
• ISBN: 1-283-97263-8; 0-203-07505-6; 1-135-11798-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462673403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics