The Silver Question
Author : Sir Henry Meysey-Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Bimetallism
ISBN :
Author : Sir Henry Meysey-Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 13,56 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Bimetallism
ISBN :
Author : R. H. Hollingbery
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 1878
Category : Gold standard
ISBN :
Author : Free-Trader (pseud. i.e. - Comber.)
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Bimetallism
ISBN :
Author : William L. Silber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 31,1 MB
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691208697
"This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history. FDR pumped up the price of silver to help jump start the U.S. economy during the Great Depression, but this move weakened China, which was then on the silver standard, and facilitated Japan's rise to power before World War II. Bunker Hunt went on a silver-buying spree during the 1970s to protect himself against inflation and triggered a financial crisis that left him bankrupt. Silver has been the preferred shelter against government defaults, political instability, and inflation for most people in the world because it is cheaper than gold. The white metal has been the place to hide when conventional investments sour, but it has also seduced sophisticated investors throughout the ages like a siren. This book explains how powerful figures, up to and including Warren Buffett, have come under silver's thrall, and how its history guides economic and political decisions in the twenty-first century"--Publisher's description
Author : Austin Dean
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,10 MB
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501752421
In the late nineteenth century, as much of the world adopted some variant of the gold standard, China remained the most populous country still using silver. Yet China had no unified national currency; there was not one monetary standard but many. Silver coins circulated alongside chunks of silver and every transaction became an "encounter of wits." China and the End of Global Silver, 1873–1937 focuses on how officials, policy makers, bankers, merchants, academics, and journalists in China and around the world answered a simple question: how should China change its monetary system? Far from a narrow, technical issue, Chinese monetary reform is a dramatic story full of political revolutions, economic depressions, chance, and contingency. As different governments in China attempted to create a unified monetary standard in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the United States, England, and Japan tried to shape the direction of Chinese monetary reform for their own benefit. Austin Dean argues convincingly that the Silver Era in world history ended owing to the interaction of imperial competition in East Asia and the state-building projects of different governments in China. When the Nationalist government of China went off the silver standard in 1935, it marked a key moment not just in Chinese history but in world history.
Author : Grace Lin
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0316317691
A New York Times Bestseller A National Book Award FinalistAn IndieBound Bestseller This breathtaking, full-color illustrated fantasy is inspired by Chinese folklore, and is a companion to the Newbery Honor winner Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. Pinmei's gentle, loving grandmother always has the most thrilling tales for her granddaughter and the other villagers. However, the peace is shattered one night when soldiers of the Emperor arrive and kidnap the storyteller. Everyone knows that the Emperor wants something called the Luminous Stone That Lights the Night. Determined to have her grandmother returned, Pinmei embarks on a journey to find the Luminous Stone alongside her friend Yishan, a mysterious boy who seems to have his own secrets to hide. Together, the two must face obstacles usually found only in legends to find the Luminous Stone and save Pinmei's grandmother--before it's too late. A fast-paced adventure that is extraordinarily written and beautifully illustrated, When the Sea Turned to Silver is a masterpiece companion novel to Where the Mountain Meets the Moon and Starry River of the Sky.
Author : William Hope Harvey
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Silver question
ISBN :
Author : Kevin Butcher
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789254019
The debasement of coinage, particularly of silver, was a common feature of pre-modern monetary systems. Most coinages were issued by state authorities and the condition of a coinage is often seen (rightly or wrongly) as an indicator of the broader fiscal health of the state that produced it. While in some cases the motives behind the debasements or reductions in standards are clear, in many cases the intentions of the issuing authorities are uncertain. Various explanations have been advanced: fiscal motives (such as a desire to profit or a to cover a deficit caused by the failure to balance expenditure and revenues); monetary motives (such as changing demand for coined money or a desire to maintain monetary stability in the face of changing values of raw materials or labour costs); pressure from groups within society that would profit from debasement; misconduct at the mint; or the decline of existing monetary standards due to circulation and wear of the coinage in circulation. Certain explanations have tended to gain favour with monetary historians of specific periods, partly reflecting the compartmentalization of scholarship. Thus the study of Roman debasements emphasizes fiscal deficits, whereas medievalists are often more prepared to consider monetary factors as contributing to debasements. To some extent these different approaches are a reflection of discrepancies in the amount of documentary evidence available for the respective periods, but the divide also underlines fundamentally different approaches to the function of coinage: Romanists have preferred to see coins as a medium for state payments; whereas medievalists have often emphasized exchange as an important function of currency. The volume is inter-disciplinary in scope. Apart from bringing together monetary historians of different periods, it also contains contributions from archaeometallurgists who have experience with the chemical and physical composition of coins and technical aspects of production of base alloys
Author : Nathaniel Peter Hill
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Debts, Public
ISBN :
Author : Kevin Butcher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1107027128
A new account of the role of coinage in the finances and economy of the Roman Empire.