An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain
An important work on banking and money which was produced in reaction to the crisis of 1797 when the Bank of England suspended cash payments due to the costs of the wars against France. It has an equally important introduction by Friedrich Hayek.
An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain, edited and with an Introduction by F.A. Hayek (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1939).
Copyright:
This works appears online with the permission of the Estate of F.A. Hayek. A further annotated version of Hayek’s introduction appears as a chapter in volume 3 of the Collected Works of F.A. Hayek (University of Chicago Press, 1991).
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- Author: Henry Thornton
- Introduction: Friedrich August von Hayek
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS
- NOTE
- INTRODUCTION
- I
- II
- III: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
- INTRODUCTION
- CONTENTS
- AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND EFFECTS OF THE PAPER CREDIT OF GREAT BRITAIN (1802)
- CHAP. I
- CHAP. II
- CHAP. III
- CHAP. IV
- CHAP. V.
- CHAP. VI
- CHAP. VII
- CHAP. VIII
- CHAP. IX
- CHAP. X
- CHAPTER XI
- APPENDIX I: THE EVIDENCE GIVEN BY HENRY THORNTON BEFORE THE Committees of Secrecy of the two Houses of Parliament on the Bank of England March and April 1797
- 1: EVIDENCE GIVEN BEFORE THE COMMITTEE OF SECRECY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS APPOINTED TO ENQUIRE INTO THE OUTSTANDING DEMANDS OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND*
- Veneris, 24° die Martii 1797
- Sabbati, 1o die Aprilis 1797
- Jovis, 6o die Aprilis 1797
- 2: EVIDENCE GIVEN BEFORE THE LORDS’ COMMITTEE OF SECRECY APPOINTED TO ENQUIRE INTO THE CAUSES WHICH PRODUCED THE ORDER OF COUNCIL OF THE 26th OF FEBRUARY 1797*
- Die Jovis, 30° Martii, 1797 Lord President in the Chair
- Die Veneris, 31° Martii 1797 Lord President in the Chair
- APPENDIX II: MANUSCRIPT NOTES BY HENRY THORNTON To Lord King’s Thoughts on the Effects of the Bank Restriction (April 1804)
- MANUSCRIPT NOTES BY HENRY THORNTON TO THOUGHTS ON THE EFFECTS OF THE BANK RESTRICTIONS BY LORD KING
- THE SECOND EDITION ENLARGED, INCLUDING SOME REMARKS ON THE COINAGE LONDON 1804
- APPENDIX III: TWO SPEECHES OF HENRY THORNTON, ESQ. ON THE BULLION REPORT MAY, 1811
- PREFACE
- TWO SPEECHES OF MR. HENRY THORNTON
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