Investigations in currency & finance
By: by W. Stanley Jevons ...  Illustrated by eighteen diagrams, ed., with an introduction, by H.S. Foxwell ...
Contributors: Foxwell, Herbert Somerton, 1849-1936, ed.; Jevons, H. Stanley b. 1875.; Jevons, Harriet Ann Taylor.
Edition: New ed., abridged, with preface by H. Stanley Jevons ...
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., limited
Published: 1909
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Money.; Finance.; Prices.; Depressions.; Currency question -- Great Britain.; Bimetallism.; Precious metals.
Notes: "First edition 1884, second edition 1909."
Table of contents: title: Preface by Mrs. Jevons.; title: Preface to the second edition.; title: Introduction by Professor H.S. Foxwell.; title: I. On the study of periodic commercial fluctuations (1862); title: II. A serious fall in the value of gold ascertained, and its social effects set forth (1863); title: III. The variation of prices, and the value of the currency since 1782 (1865); title: IV. The depreciation of gold (1869); title: V. On the frequent autumnal pressure in the money market, and the action of the Bank of England (1866); title: VI. The solar period and the price of corn (1875); title: VII. The periodicity of commercial crises and its physical explanation (1878), with postscript April (1882); title: VIII. Commercial crises and sun-spots (1878-9); title: IX. On the condition of the gold coinage of the kingdom, with reference to the question of international currency (1868); title: X. An ideally perfect system of currency (1875) (not previously published); title: XI. Gold and silver: a letter to M. Wolowski Sir Isaac Newton and bimetallism. (Left unfinished in 1882) With an appendix of fragments on bimetallism from the author's mss.; title: Appendix on the theory of cycles.; title: Index.