[Economic tracts / by Henry Carey Bird].

Author/creator Baird, Henry Carey
Format Electronic
Publication Info[Philadelphia : s.n., 1860-1894]
Description1 online resource (62 v.).
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Subjects
Protectionism.

SeriesThe making of the modern world. Part 2 (1851-1914)
Making of the modern world. Part 2 (1851-1914) UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Protection of home labor and home productions necessary to the prosperity of the American farmer -- A letter to the Secretary of the Treasury -- The duty on books -- The rights of American producers, and the wrongs of British free-trade revenue reform -- Copyright, national and international -- Letters on the crisis, the currency, and the credit system -- The theory of inflation -- The results of the resumption of specie payments in England, 1819-1823 -- The recent financial policies of the United States and France -- Money -- The British credit system -- The national finances -- What is "communism?" -- The United States treasury -- Money and its substitutes -- Lessons from abroad -- Argument of Henry Carey Baird -- The lesson of German and French finance -- The eastern and the western questions : Turkey and the United States -- Resumption of specie payments -- Remonetization of silver.
Contents The Greenback -- Quinine -- Mr. Sherman and the national outlook -- The Greenback -- Quinine -- Our bank-credit system -- The tariff of the Tariff Commission -- The tariff question : an open letter -- The necessary foundations of individual and national well-being, and of civilization --The silver dollar, the original standard of payment of the United States of America, and its enemies -- Mr. Hewitt as a philosopher and a statesman -- Technical education in the United States and England -- Mr. David A. Wells on over-production and foreign trade -- The price of silver, and its relations to the wheat competition of India -- Commerce or Association -- Brief tracts on some economic questions, 1882-85 -- Brief tracts on some economic questions, 1885-87 -- Brief tracts on some economic questions : third series, 1871-88.
Contents Two roads -- A reactionary movement in education -- The listing of silver bullion certificates -- Old rails from India and the silver question -- Senator Sherman on sugar -- No more contraction -- The gold basis in Netherlands India and the gold and silver basis in the United States -- A remedy for excessive immigration -- Money and bank credit in the United States, France, and Great Britain, and their effects on the people -- Bank-wind and the exports of gold -- Is the currrency everything and man nothing? -- The United States before the passage of the silver bill of February 28, 1978 -- The silver purchase of 1878-1893, as a saving fund for labor-power -- The Franco-German war fine of 1871, and how it was paid by France -- Bankruptcies and bank inflation and contraction -- The centenary of the birth of Henry C. Carey.
Contents Contraction of National bank loans $136,000,000 -- Silver and the tariff -- The Wilson tariff bill -- Association : the dominating need of man and the keynote of social science -- General Wistar's "Absurdly Redundant" currency -- The Workingmen of Bristol, Bucks Co., Pa. -- Sherman's silver theory -- Catalogue of books and pamphlets.
General noteReproduction of the original from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.

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