6o IV. G. Langzvorthy Taylor 



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General: Jevons, Investigations in Currency and Finance, pp. 18-63, 

 lig-38; Nicholson, Money and Monetary Problems, essay VII, "Measure- 

 ment of Variations in the Value of Monetary Standards"; ibid., part II, 

 ch. Ill, " The Exchange Value of Gold and the Exchange Value of Silver"; 

 Fisher, Purchasing Power of Money, ch. VIII, et passim. 



Tabular Standard: Jevons, Mechanism, ch. XXV; F. Y. Edgeworth, 

 " The Appreciation of Gold," Quarterly Journal of Economics, January, 

 1889 ("weighting" of tables); J. Laurence Laughlin, "Fall of Prices," 

 Quarterly Journal of Economics, April, 1887, Appendix (explains dif- 

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 VI, " Tables of Prices " ; F. Coggeshall, " The Arithmetic, Geometric, and 

 Harmonic Means," Quarterly Journal of Economics, October, 1886; 

 Ricardo, Political Economy, ch. I, "On Value," pp. 11-12 (Bohn's ed.) ; 

 Levi, History of British Commerce, p. 252; Nicholson, part I, ch. II, 

 (value of tables of prices, functions of money, index numbers, etc.) : 

 Walker, International Bimetallism, p. 256 (meaning of " appreciation," 

 also "weighting of tables"); Walker, Political Economy, part VI, ch. 

 VI ; Fiamingo, " Measures of the Value of Money," Journal of Political 

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 " Relative Stability of Gold and Silver," Annals of the American Academy, 

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 IV, VII ; C. W. Oker, " The Fallacy of Index Numbers," Journal of 

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 Standard," Annals of the American Academy, March, 1896; D. A. Wells, 

 Recent Economic Changes, p. 121 ; idem, " The Number System," Con- 

 temporary Reviezu, October and November, 1887 ; Fisher, Purchasing 

 Power of Money, ch. XIII, § 4. 



REFERENCES ON THE RELATION OF THE STANDARD OF VALUE TO DEFERRED 



PAYMENTS 



Effect of Legal Tender: Gififen, "Argument vs. Bimetallism," Con- 

 ference of 187S ; Horton, Silver Pound, ch. IV, " Transcendental Single 

 Metallism " ; Walker, ch. XIII ; Horton, Silver and Gold, Appendix H ; 

 Horton, Conference, 1881, pp. 385, 491 ; Horton, Conference, 1878, pp. 715, 

 741; Cernuschi, Nomisma, p. 156; Jordan, chs. IV-VI. 



On India: Helm, The Joint Standard, chs. XV, XVI; Walker, Inter- 

 national Bimetallism, pp. 137-47, et passim (par of exchange) ; Fiamingo, 

 " Money and International Exchange," Yale Review, February, 1898 

 (money not a cause of exchange, but conditions— economic ; low prices in 

 India not a cause of Indian exports) ; Lexis, " The Present Monetary 

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 II (opposes Nicholson); Alfred Marshall, "Testimony," Appendix to 

 Final Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the 



