An Essay upon Money and Coins
An Essay upon Money and Coins
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GBPJoseph Harris (1704–64) was equally distinguished as an astronomer and as an expert on coinage. From a humble background, he came to the attention of Edmond Halley, the Astronomer Royal. He spent some time making astronomical observations in South America and the West Indies, and familiarised himself with marine navigational practice, proposing improvements to measuring equipment and publishing a very popular instructional work on the uses of globes and orreries. He later observed the 1761 transit of Venus from Wales. Harris entered the Royal Mint in 1736, and became the King's Assay Master in 1749. This influential 1757 work, considered by the Victorian economist J. R. McCulloch as 'one of the best and most valuable treatises on the subject of money that has ever seen the light', argues that it is vital to a country's economy that the value of precious metal in its coinage remains constant.
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August 2017Paperback
9781108078573
286 pages
218 × 140 × 18 mm
0.38kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I. The Theories of Commerce, Money, and Exchanges:
- 1. Of the nature and origin of wealth and commerce
- 2. Of money and coins
- 3. Of exchanges
- Preface
- Part II. Wherein is Shewed, that the Established Standard of Money Should Not Be Violated or Altered, under Any Pretence Whatsoever:
- 1. A summary of adulterations in our standard of money
- 2. The established standard of money
- Postscript.
