Miscellaneous papers on the national finances, the currency, and other economic subjects.
By: By Henry C. Carey.
Publisher: H.C. Baird & Co.
Published: 1875
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Finance -- United States.; Currency question -- United States.; United States -- Economic conditions.
Notes: The currency question. Letters to the Hon. Schuyler Colfax.--The resources of the union. A lecture read December, 1865, before the American geographical and statistical society, New York; and before the American association for the advancement of social science, Boston.--The public debt, local and national: how to provide for its discharge while lessening the burthen of taxation. Letter to David. A. Wells, esq., chairman of the Board of revenue commissioners.--Contraction or expansion? Repudiation or resumption? Letters to the Hon. Hugh M'Culloch, secretary of the Treasury.--The national bank amendment bill. Reprinted from the North American and United States gazette, April, 1866.--Review of the decade 1857-67.--Reconstruction: industrial, finacial, and political. Letters to the Hon. Henry Wilson, senator from Massachusetts.--The finance minister, the currency, and the public debt.--How protection, increase of public and private revenues, and national independence, march hand in hand together. Review of the report of the Hon. D.A. Wells, special commissioner of the revenue.
Each paper has t.-p., dated 1865-1874, and separate pagination.
505 (con't)--Our future.--Review of the farmer's question, as exhibited in the recent report of the Hon. D.A. Wells, special commissioner of the revenue.--Wealth: of what does it consist? Reprinted from the Penn monthly magazine, October, 1870.--Currency inflation: how it has been produced, and how it may profitably be reduced. Letters to the Hon. B.H. Bristow, secretary of the Treasury.--The British treaties of 1871 & 1874. Letters to the President of the United States.