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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