INDEX

ABILITY and earnings, 127.
,s asthe measure of taxation, 275.
Accumulation of money in banks, 178.
Acquisition, cost of, 202.
Adjustment of supply to demand, 77,
127, 128.
Advantage, private 2. public, 267, 268.
Advertisement, 64.
Aims of regulation of note-issues, 189.
Alloy in coins, 164, 231.
Alternative demand and supply, 69.
pr uses of labour-power, 37.
American Civil War, 173.
,, National Banks, 188, 189,
193.
Apprenticeship, 127.
Arbitrage, 242.
Arbitration commission, 149.
Assignats, 173, 183.
Associated action, economy of, 270.
BA) pies of international obligations,
216.
Bank of England, 18s, 196, 240.
,, France, 184, 240.
, Germany, 186, 191.
,» Netherlands, 188.
Bank deposits, 182, 101.
,, notes, 166, 181-189, 192, 193.
Bank-price of gold, 196.
,y TEserves, 177, 183, 2335.
Bankers’ loanable credit, 174.
Banking principle, the, 190.
Bankruptcy legislation, importance of,
92, 155:
Banks and economy of currency, 167.
Bargaining, collective, 135, 141.
Bargaining-power, 35, 125.
Barter, 33, 160; 200, 306.
Belgium, National Bank of, 188.
Benefit as a measure of taxation, 279.
Bills of exchange, 166, 167, 226.
Bimetallism, 236-Birth-rate
 and labour supply, 130.
Bonus on wages, 147.
7 to industries, 247, 248.

Book-credits, 166, 168.
Boom-years, 172.
Borrowing and lending, 93.
international,
218-220,222.
ss public, 292, 293.
Bounty on export, 251.
,» import, 251, 252.
- production, 248.
British foreign investments, 219.
Building -sites, rent of, 105.

CANADA, 114.
’ currency of, 184, 187.
Capital, its nature, 16, 79.
,,  andlabourattracted toprotected
industries, 259.
control of, 83, 88.
goods, 79.
productivity of, 83.
relation of to wages, 139, 140.
,, taxes on, 284, 288.
Capitalisation of taxation, 290.
Tapitalist-employer, 15%.
Capitalist, remuneration of the, 156.
hanges of value, 64.
“heap food and wages, 257.
“heapness, fictitious, 138.
“heques, 167, 175, 181.
“hildren and free contract, 268.
Children’s wages, 136, 137.
Choice of occupation, 3, 4, 127, 128.
Circulating power of paper currency,
194.
Circulation of bank-notes, freedom of,
184, 189.
28 rapidity of, 169, 179.
Civil war, American, 173.
Class maintenance, 129.
,, standard of living, 129.
Cleansing of streets, 270-272.
Clearing houses, 167.
Coal-miners’ sliding scale, 149.
Coinage, 163, 164, 195.
,s free, 196.
Coinage-ratio in France and U.S., 236.
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