An Inquiry into the Principles of Political OEconomy: being an Essay on the Science of Domestic Policy in Free Nations (Vol. 2 of 2), Jame Steuart

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Steuart, James, Sir, 1712-1780

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An Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy (Vol. 2 of 2) Being an essay on the science of domestic policy in free nations. In which are particularly considered population, agriculture, trade, industry, money, coin, interest, circulation, banks, exchange, public credit, and taxes

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English

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HB: Social sciences: Economic theory, Demography

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Economics

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eBook-No. 66710

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November 11, 2021

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Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL OECONOMY:
2. 2.CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
3. 3.BOOK III. OF MONEY AND COIN. — PART II. THE PRINCIPLES OF MONEY APPLIED TO TRADE. — CHAP. I. Consequences of imposing the Price of Coinage, and the Duty of Seignorage upon the Coin of a Nation, so far as they affect the Price of Bullion, and that of all other Commodities. — CHAP. II. Concerning the Influence which the imposing the Price of Coinage, and the Duty of Seigniorage in the English Mint, will have upon the Course of Exchange, and Trade of Great Britain. — CHAP. III. Is the loss which the course of exchange marks upon the trade of Great Britain with France real or apparent? — CHAP. IV. Of the different methods of imposing coinage; and of the influence they respectively have upon the value of the money-unit, and upon the domestic interests of the nation. — CHAP. V. How an Experiment may be made to discover with Certainty the real Effects of the Imposition of Coinage. — CHAP. VI. Miscellaneous Questions and Observations concerning the Doctrine of Money and Coin. — CHAP. VII. Of the Regulations observed in France, with regard to Coin, Bullion, and Plate. — CHAP. VIII. Of the Regulations observed in Holland, with regard to Coin and Bullion.
4. 4.BOOK IV. OF CREDIT AND DEBTS. — PART I. OF THE INTEREST OF MONEY. — INTRODUCTION. — CHAP. I. What Credit is, and on what founded. — CHAP. II. Of the Nature of Obligations to be performed, in Consequence of Credit given. — CHAP. III. Of the Interest of Money. — CHAP. IV. Of the Principles which regulate the Rate of Interest . — CHAP. V. Of the Regulation of Interest by Statute. — CHAP. VI. What would be the Consequence of reducing, by a British Statute, the legal Interest of Money below the present level of the Stocks. — CHAP. VII. Methods of bringing down the Rate of Interest, in Consequence of the Principles of Demand and Competition. — CHAP. VIII. Is the Rate of Interest the sure Barometer of the State of Commerce? — CHAP. IX. Does not Interest fall in Proportion as Wealth increases? — PART II. OF BANKS. — CHAP. I. Of the various Kinds of Credit. — CHAP. II. Of private Credit. — CHAP. III. Of Banks. — CHAP. IV. Of Banks of Circulation upon Mortgage or private Credit. — CHAP. V. Such Banks ought to issue their Notes on private, not mercantile Credit. — CHAP. VI. Use of subaltern Bankers and Exchangers. — CHAP. VII. Concerning the Obligation to pay in Coin, and the Consequences thereof. — CHAP. VIII. How a wrong Balance of Trade affects Banks of Circulation. — CHAP. IX. How a grand Balance may be paid by Banks, without the assistance of Coin. — CHAP. X. Insufficiency of temporary Credits for the Payment of a wrong Balance. — CHAP. XI. Of the Hurt resulting to Banks, when they leave the Payment of a wrong Balance to Exchangers. — CHAP. XII. How the Payment of a wrong Balance affects Circulation. — CHAP. XIII. Continuation of the same Subject; and of the Principles upon which Banks ought to borrow Abroad, and give credit at Home. — CHAP. XIV. Of optional Clauses contained in Bank Notes. — CHAP. XV. Of subaltern Banks of Circulation, and of their Competition with one another. — CHAP. XVI. Of some Regulations proper to be made with regard to national Banks. — CHAP. XVII. When and in what case Banks should be obliged to keep open Books. — CHAP. XVIII. Is it the Interest of Banks to grant Credits and Cash Accompts to Exchangers and others, who make a Trade of sending Coin out of the Country? — CHAP. XIX. Application of the Principles above deduced, towards forming the Policy of Circulation. — CHAP. XX. Objections to this Doctrine. — CHAP. XXI. How by a return of a favourable Balance the Bank may be enabled to pay off the Debts due to Foreigners, and thus deliver the Nation from that Burthen. — CHAP. XXII. Of Banks of Circulation established on mercantile Credit. — CHAP. XXIII. Of the first Establishment of Mr. Law’s Bank in France, in the Year 1716. — CHAP. XXIV. Account of the variations of the French coin, some time before and after the death of Louis XIV. — CHAP. XXV. Continuation of the Account of Law’s Bank. — CHAP. XXVI. Account of the Royal Mississippi Bank of France, established on Public Credit. — CHAP. XXVII. A short Account of the French Company of the Indies. — CHAP. XXVIII. Chronological Anecdotes. — CHAP. XXIX. Continuation of the Account of the Royal Bank of France, until the time that the Company of the Indies promised a Dividend of 200 Livres per Action . — CHAP. XXX. Inquiry into the Motives of the Duke of Orleans in concerting the Plan of the Missisippi. — CHAP. XXXI. Continuation of the Account of the royal Bank of France, until the total Bankruptcy on the 21st of May 1720. — CHAP. XXXII. Conclusion of the Missisippi Scheme. — CHAP. XXXIII. Why Credit fell, and how it might have been supported. — CHAP. XXXIV. How the diminishing the Denomination of the Paper in Circulation, by the arret of the 21st of May 1720, destroyed the Credit of France, when the same arbitrary Measures taken, with regard to the Coin, had produced no such Effect. — CHAP. XXXV. How a Bank may be safely established in France, as Matters stand at present. — CHAP. XXXVI. Of Banks of deposit and transfer. — CHAP. XXXVII. Of the Bank of Amsterdam. — CHAP. XXXVIII. Of the Agio of the Bank of Amsterdam. — CHAP. XXXIX. Continuation of the same Subject; and concerning the Circulation of Coin through the Bank of Amsterdam. — PART III. OF EXCHANGE. — CHAP. I. Of the first Principles of Exchange. — CHAP. II. How to determine exactly the true and intrinsic value of the Metals, Coin, or Money, in which a Balance to foreign Nations is to be paid. — CHAP. III. How to remove the inconveniences which occur in paying Balances with the Metals or Coin of a Nation. — CHAP. IV. How the Price of Exchange , in a prosperous trading Nation, may be prevented from operating upon the whole Mass of reciprocal Payments, in place of affecting the Balance only . — CHAP. V. How, when other expedients prove ineffectual for discharging of Balances, the same may be paid by the Means of Credit, without the Intervention of Coin or Bullion; and who are those who ought to conduct that Operation. — PART IV. OF PUBLIC CREDIT. — CHAP. I. Of the various Consequences of Public Debts. — CHAP. II. Of the Rise and Progress of Public Credit. — CHAP. III. Of Anticipations, or borrowing Money upon Assignments to Taxes for the Discharge of Principal and Interest. — CHAP. IV. Of the State of public Credit in France before the reign of Louis XIV. and of the Sentiment of the great Richlieu upon that Subject. — CHAP. V. Of the present state of public Credit in Great Britain. — CHAP. VI. State of the public Credit in France, their Debts, Funds, and Appropriations, at the Peace 1763. — CHAP. VII. Comparative View of the Revenue, Debts, and Credit of Great Britain and France. — CHAP. VIII. Contingent Consequences of the Extension of Credit, and Increase of Debts. — CHAP. IX. Of Bankruptcies. — CHAP. X. Methods of contracting and paying off Public Debts.
5. 5.BOOK V. OF TAXES, AND OF THE PROPER APPLICATION OF THEIR AMOUNT. — INTRODUCTION. — CHAP. I. Of the different Kinds of Taxes. — CHAP. II. Of proportional Taxes, and their proper Object. — CHAP. III. How proportional Taxes are drawn back by the industrious, and how that drawing back is the only reason why Taxes raise the Prices of Commodities. — CHAP. IV. Of cumulative Taxes. — CHAP. V. Of the Inconveniences which proceed from proportional Taxes, and of the Methods of removing them. — CHAP. VI. Cumulative and proportional Taxes compared with one another, and farther examined. — CHAP. VII. Consequence of Taxes when the amount of them is properly applied. — CHAP. VIII. Of the extent of Taxation. — CHAP. IX. The consequences of an Abolition of Taxes. — CHAP. X. Are taxes a spur to industry, as some pretend? — CHAP. XI. Considerations upon Land-Taxes, with some Observations upon those of England and France. — CHAP. XII. Miscellaneous Questions relating to Taxes. — CHAP. XIII. Recapitulation of the Fourth Book. — CHAP. XIV. Recapitulation of the Fifth Book.
6. 6.A TABLE of COINS ,
7. 7.INDEX.

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