Die Zölle und Steuern sowie die vertragsmässigen auswärtigen Handelsbeziehungen des Deutschen Reiches

Der Weltmarkt 1913 und heute

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Identifikator:: 829207953

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-40957

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aufseß, Otto von und zu http://d-nb.info/gnd/124693784

Title:: Die Zölle und Steuern sowie die vertragsmässigen auswärtigen Handelsbeziehungen des Deutschen Reiches

Edition:: 3. Bearb.

Place of publication:: München

Publisher:: Hirth

Year of publication:: 1886

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 280 S)

Collection:: Economics Books

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CREDIT TRANSACTIONS IN SECURITIES 177 Fallacies Regarding Credit.—In spite of the extensive and time-honored employment of credit in business, compara- tively few men ever stop to analyze in detail exactly what credit is. In consequence, the average business man is only too apt to be puzzled when he is asked, “How can a man buy something which he doesn’t want to keep and when he hasn't enough money to pay for it?” or “How can a man sell something which he doesn’t own?” Superficially considered, both of these ques- tions would seem to imply a lack of business morality. And yet the simple answer to both these questions obviously is, “By using credit.” Thanks to the vast extension of our credit machinery during the past century, the deferred payment of money and the deferred delivery of goods have both become a daily commonplace, not merely in Stock Exchange transactions. but in every conceivable kind of modern business. One phase of this universal use of credit deserves considera- tion at this point. Although a sale is really an exchange of money and goods, our inevitable habit of thinking only on the money side of what is necessarily a two-sided transaction makes it easier for the average man to understand a deferred payment of money than a deferred delivery of goods. Owing someone money is an experience with which, fortunately or unfortu- nately, most of the human race is only too well acquainted, whereas owing someone goods—whether it be an overcoat, a barrel of molasses, or a share of stock—is apt to seem a novel and highly perplexing situation. Debts in Terms of Goods.—Yet a moment's thought will show that it is no more unnatural to owe goods than to owe money. In ancient times, long before money had been in- vented, all trading was necessarily conducted entirely by barter, which consists of an exchange of goods for goods. Thus an ancient Roman would exchange his cattle for someone’s bronze implements, or an American Indian would barter his furs for another Indian’s corn. In point of historical evolution, there- fore, it is altogether probable that credit was used to defer a

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