ABSTRACT
The role of gold in the world's exchange system has been hotly contested by leading economists. This work collects the most important arguments in favour of gold, including such works as David Ricardo's "High price of Bullion" and W. Stanley Jevons's "Money and the Mechanism of Exchange".
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|17 pages
Gerard de Malynes (fl. 1586–1623)
part 2|81 pages
John Locke (1632–1704)
part 3|43 pages
David Hume (1711–76)
part 4|38 pages
Richard Cantillon (1697–1734)
part 5|159 pages
Henry Thornton (1760–1815)
