The A B C of Finance
A popularization of economic ideas which Newcomb wrote for Harpers Magazine.
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The ABC of Finance: or, the Money and Labor Questions Familiarly Explained to Common People in Short and Easy Lessons (New York: Harper and Bros. 1877).
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- Author: Simon Newcomb
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Introduction
- LESSON I.: What Society Does for the Laborer.
- LESSON II.: Capital and Labor.
- LESSON III.: Starvation Wages.
- LESSON IV.: One Dollar.
- LESSON V.: Value Cannot Be Given By Government.
- LESSON VI.: The Value of Paper Money.
- LESSON VII.: Why Has the Greenback Any Value?
- LESSON VIII.: The 3.65-Bond Plan
- LESSON IX.: The Mystery of Money
- LESSON X.: The Evil of a Depreciating Currency
- LESSON XI.: A Few Facts
- LESSON XII.: The Lessons of History
- LESSON XIII.: The Public Faith
- LESSON XIV.: The Cause and the Remedy
- The Cause.
- The Remedy.
- LESSON XV.: Some General Thoughts
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