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Identifikator:: 1819853969

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-207464

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cannan, Edwin http://d-nb.info/gnd/118666916

Title:: Money

Edition:: 6. ed.

Place of publication:: [London]

Publisher:: King

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: XII, 120 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part I. General principles

Collection:: Economics Books

MONEY two Ordnance Surveys would appear to the average inhabitant of Huddersfield. Being unable to bring forward any reasons why changes in the value of money and general level of prices should have become impossible, those who dislike the idea are obliged to confine themselves to questioning the existence of each particular change which happens to take place in their time. It is therefore necessary for us to begin by making clear how such changes may be recognized and roughly measured. We cannot expect to find in actual life a general rise of prices manifesting itself as a uniform rise, say of 10 per cent. in the price of each single commodity and service. If we did expect such a thing, it would imply that we also thought that if the general level of prices remained stationary, say between to-day and next year, the price of each single commodity would be precisely the same next year as to-day. Of course we expect nothing of the kind : we know that particular prices are affected by various diverse influences and are constantly changing. In the event of a general rise or fall of prices there is no reason for supposing that these influences would be any more quiescent than when no such change was proceeding. When there is a general rise, some things will rise much and others little, and some are likely even to fall. How then can we judge whether there has been a change in the general level, and if we are satisfied that such a change has occurred, how can we judge whether it is great or small ? The process is analogous to that which would be employed in ascertaining whether and if so by how much the existing level of an acre of ground which has been very much disturbed by operations upon it is lower than it was before. Let us say that Jones and Smith have been comrades in the War, and on

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