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Three Lectures on the Transmission of Precious Metals from Country to Country and The Mercantile Theory of Wealth

Three Lectures on the Transmission of Precious Metals from Country to Country and The Mercantile Theory of Wealth by Nassau W. Senior is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.

Author
Nassau W. Senior
First published
1828
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PDF and EPUB
Pages
33
Publisher
London: John Murray, 1828; Online Library of Liberty edition
License
Public domain by publication date.

Lectures Senior delivered at Oxford in June 1827 and published the next year. One explains how gold and silver spread among trading nations according to relative prices, the others dismantle the mercantile theory that a country gains by hoarding bullion or restricting imports. A short early statement of the specie-flow view of international trade.

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Nassau William Senior (1790–1864) was a British economist who taught at Oxford University and worked on the marginal aspects of inputs to production. This archive holds 7 of Senior's works.

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  2. LECTURE I.: TRANSMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS METALS FROM COUNTRY TO COUNTRY.
  3. LECTURE II.: MERCANTILE THEORY OF WEALTH.
  4. LECTURE III.: MERCANTILE THEORY OF WEALTH CONCLUDED.
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Nassau W. Senior 1790–1864

Nassau William Senior (1790–1864) was a British economist who taught at Oxford University and worked on the marginal aspects of inputs to production. Read more about Nassau W. Senior.

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