Word: nicholson
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Seminary of American History and Institutions. Massachusetts Financial History, 1780-1790. Mr. W. Nicholson. University...
...Watson Nicholson, A.B. Leland Stanford Jr. Univ. 1892; first year Graduate School; History...
...BULL and W. B. MOULTON.Best general references: F. A. Walker, Money; J. S. Nicholson, Money and Monetary Problems; E. Benj. Andrews Pol. Sci. Q., VIII, 197-219 (June 1893); E. Suess, Future of Silver; S. D. Horton, Silver in Europe; J. W. Jenks in Amer. Journ. Soc. Sci., XXXII...
...Adoption of gold standard impracticable. (a) Gold is scarce. (1) Present supply insufficient. (Barbour, Theory of Bimetallism, p. 10). (2) Annual output small and mined largely with silver. (Walker, pp. 254, 265). (3) Much gold used in arts. (Nicholson, p. (290). (b) Monometallism cannot be universal. (1) Some countries have no gold. (2) It would entail financial loss on othes (Vandenberg in Monetary Conference...
...Bimetallism practicable and desirable. Nicholson, Part II, ch. IV). (a) Ratio of gold and silver determined, not by relative amounts, but by relative demand. (Nicholson, pp. 214-217). (1) International legislation can regulate demand. (Barbour, p. 42). (2) A single country can do this. (Walker, p. 266). (b) Overproduction of silver impossible. (Andrews, pp. 212-215). (c) Bimetallism would give sufficient money...