PREFACE

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Part IT, sections 1-4, and Part III, sections 1 and 2,
were added in the fourth edition, 1923, taking the
place of two sections dealing with the rise of prices
in 1914-20 which had appeared in the second and
third editions. Much st sections 1 and 2 of Part II
were taken, bv kind permission of the editors, from
a paper read i. “".. conomic Section of the British
Association -% "“2"~"-r~h which was printed in the
Economic Tc:= 7 + ezember, 1921.
Section . ¢° 7 - section 3 of Part III, and
the two A»~- *-- ~=-r- °° "ip the fifth edition,
1926.
In the present edition I have continued Appendix
II, explaining the changes which have been made in
the gold standar” ~s = ‘ make it cover the effect
of the Currenr Ce ** rg28, which,
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