Search Results: ECONOMICS from Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First American edition. Hardcover. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Inscribed to the Lamonts by the author, a Nobel prize winner for economics. 8vo, 195pp. With original dj, with title in gold at dark blue dj spine, very gently rubbed. Internally fine.

Clayton, Gary E. Economics Principles & Practices. Hardcover 2001. ISBN 007824879. Hardcover, vg+ condition. No highlighting, underlining, tears. Booksellers since 1976.

Philadelphia: Henry Carey Baird & Co, 1876. Otherwise very good condition. Henry Carey Baird (1825 - 1912) was a publisher of technical and scientific titles, who promoted American manufacturing. 8vo, 16pp. Text in two columns. Reprinted by permission from the Atlantic Monthly for March, 1876. Front wrapper detached, slt chipped upper corner.

1998. 5th edition. Hardcover, vg+ condition. No highlighting, underlining, tears. Booksellers since 1976.

Washington, D.C., 1890. Staining, age spots, small holes in cover.. 15pp. Transcript of speech given by New York Senator Frank Hiscock (1834-1914) before the Senate on June 5, 1890 opposing the free coinage of silver. He was speaking against Bill S.2350, authoritizing the issue of Treasury notes on deposits of silver bullion. "Free Silver," or the unlimited coinage of silver by the U.S. government for anyone bringing the metal to the U.S. Mint, was a common political slogan in the second half of the 19th century, with proponents pushing for an increase to the money supply. The "Silverites" pushed for bimetallism, or the use of both silver and gold in coins, at a ratio of 16 ounces of silver worth one ounce of gold. The actual ratio was about 32 to 1, so economists feared cheaper silver would drive gold out of circulation because people would hoard it. The Bland-Allison Act of 1878 required the Treasury to buy only $2 million to $4 million of silver annually and coin it at the standard 16 to 1 ratio… Read More