[ECONOMY / GOLD] On the probable results of an increase in the purchasing power of gold.

Published by Blades, East & Blades, London, 1883

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Original wrappers. Demy 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In English. 27 p. Ex-library copy with two stamps on pages. A label on spine. Otherwise, a good copy. Pamphlet on the probable results of an increase in the purchasing power of gold in Europe and America, by George Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen, a Liberal, then a Liberal Unionist British statesman and businessman before joining the Conservative Party in 1893, reprinted from the Journal of the Institute of Bankers, volume IV, part VI, May 1883. He was best remembered for the Goschen formula (or Goschen proportions) was a ratio devised by him when Chancellor of the Exchequer, to allocate funding for services in Scotland and Ireland compared with England and Wales and used from 1888. In addition to his well-known work on "The Theory of Foreign Exchanges", he published several financial and political pamphlets and addresses on educational and social subjects, among them being, The Cultivation of the Imagination, Liverpool, 1877, and that on Intellectual Interest, Aberdeen, 1888. He was President of the Royal Statistical Society, 1886-88.…

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Title
[ECONOMY / GOLD] On the probable results of an increase in the purchasing power of gold.
Author
GEO. J. GOSCHEN, M.P. (1831-1907).
Publisher
Blades, East & Blades, London
Publication year
1883
Condition
Very Good
Binding
Soft cover
Dimensions
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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Khalkedon Rare Books ABA, ILAB, IOBA, ESA

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Khalkedon Rare Books has been active in the antiquarian book trade in Turkey for over 15 years. Founded in 2009 by Alican Akin, Khalkedon Rare Books specializes in rare books related to the Turkish and Islamic World, spanning from Central Asia to Andalusia. Alican Akin has been a member bookseller on AbeBooks since 2012, a member of the ABA and ILAB, a member of IOBA since 2015, and a member of the Ephemera Society of America since 2021.

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