Principles of Political Economy

by Arthur Latham Perry

A

• Abraham, [9], [384].
• Abstinence, [93], [191], [338], [445].
• Abyssinia, [386].
• Activities of men, [1].
• Actors, [4].
• Act of Parliament, [127].
• Act of 1624, [135].
• Adams's inauguration suit, [510].
• Administration, [358].
• Advalorem rates of tariff tax, [489], [558].
• Advantages of credit, [271].
• Advantages of discount, [302].
• African macoute, [388].
• "African, the," [158].
• Agent of the mill, [4].
• Age of iron, [95].
• Ages of stone, [95].
• Agreeableness of rendering, [218].
• Agriculture, [149], [538].
• Allison of Iowa, [582].
• Alloy, [416].
• America, [3].
• American capital, [166].
• Ames, Fisher, [538].
• Amsterdam, [165], [311], [421].
• Analysis, [15].
• Ancient Romans, [2].
• Annual earnings, [543].
• Apprenticeship, [186], [203].
• Arbitration, [266].
• Aristophanes, [420].
• Aristotle, [47], [98], [158], [248], [381], [402].
• Aristotle's Logic, [63].
• Arkwright, Richard, [108].
• Arlington Mills, [516].
• Artisans of every name, [2].
• Ascertainment, [15], [246].
• Asia, [19].
• Asia Minor, [333].
• Asia, pro-consular, [579].
• Association, [99].
• Assyria and Babylonia, [330].
• Astor, J. J., [180].
• Astronomy, [63].
• Auction, [57].
• Augustus Cæsar, [392], [580].
• Australia, [252], [399].
• Axe, [90].
• Axioms, [69].

B

• Babylonian tablets, [332].
• Bacon, Lord, [63], [64].
• Bailee, [278].
• "Balance of trade," [312], [406], [452].
• Bales of cotton, [345].
• Ball, John, [228].
• Balloon of promise, [343].
• Bancroft, historian, [512], [573].
• Bangor, [454].
• Bank bills, [286].
• Bank defined, [291].
• Bank deposits, [291].
• Bank discount, [299].
• Bank messengers, [5].
• Banker defined, [6].
• "Bankers' bills," [315].
• Bank of Amsterdam, [280].
• Bank of England, [82], [287], [292], [350], [396], [448].
• Bank of Massachusetts, [288].
• Bank of New York, [288].
• "Bank of North America," [288].
• Bank of Scotland, [325].
• Banks of Newfoundland, [180].
• Barter, [364].
• Bascom, John, [71].
• Bastiat, [47].
• Beauty of gold and silver coins, [413].
• Beck, Senator, [491].
• Benevolence and impertinence in trade, [239].
• Bentham, Jeremy, [252], [448].
• Benton, Thomas H., [494].
• Berkshire Co., Mass., [260], [533].
• Berlin, [3].
• Berlin Geographical Society, [27].
• Bernhardt, [211].
• Bessemer Steel Co., [487], [491].
• Best money, [395].
• Best tenure of lands, [155].
• Betterments on land, [173].
• Bill-discounters, [300].
• Bill of exchange, [278], [300], [303].
• Bill of lading, [277].
• "Bills of credit," [435].
• Bimetallism, [415].
• Bismarck, [210].
• "Black Death," [227].
• Blacksmith's capacity, [118].
• Blades of the shears, [249].
• Blaine, Secretary, [507].
• "Blanket" mortgage, [284].
• Blunders in economics, [75].
• "Body," [78].
• Bombay spinner, [201].
• Bonnieres quarry, [164].
• "Book of Trades," [114].
• Borrow, [277].
• Boston Commercial Bulletin, [563].
• Boston Custom House, [564].
• Botany, [63].
• Bottom-principle in taxes, [567].
• Bounty of God, [43].
• Bradford, Governor, [391].
• Bradley, Mr. Justice, [359].
• Breadth of contracts, [241].
• Bright, John, [199].
• British colonies, [313].
• British Isles, [84].
• British Provinces, [527].
• British Revenue Tariff, [485].
• British statesman, [153].
• Brokers' board, [302].
• Broker's office, [6].
• Bronson, [434], [436].
• Brotherhoods, [226].
• Buchanan, James, [447].
• Bullets as money, [392].
• Bullion theory, [403], [451], [453].
• Bureau of Statistics, [264].
• Burman Empire, [385].
• Buying, [14].
• Buying and selling, [4], [15], [236].

C

• Cakes of tea, [386].
• Calhoun, Senator, [497], [499].
• Calicoes, [105].
• Canada, [179].
• Capital, [92], [96], [246].
• Capital defined, [93].
• Capital wears out, [171].
• Capitalists as a class, [233].
• Capitalists of Boston, [4].
• Captains of industry, [196], [244].
• Carey, H. C., [103].
• Carpenter's square, [38].
• Carthage, [21], [84].
• Carthaginians, [387].
• Cartwright, Edmund, [111].
• Cases and classes, [68].
• "Cash accounts," [333].
• Cash credits, [324], [327].
• Cattle, [80].
• Cattle as money, [383].
• Causes of labor troubles, [238].
• Cavour, [210].
• Cecil, Robert, [126].
• Cedars, [23], [40].
• Census, [75].
• Central America, [27].
• Chadwick, Sir Edwin, [197], [200].
• Chaldean tablets, [331].
• Chalmers, Thomas, [137], [215].
• Chase, Chief Justice, [356], [357].
• Chatham, [210].
• Chattels, [93].
• Checks on market rate, [56].
• Chemistry, [63].
• Cheque-Bank, [321], [329].
• Cheques, [303], [317].
• Chevalier, [399].
• Chicago, [278], [477], [501].
• Chicago, fire in, [500].
• China, [19], [387].
• Chinese-wall policy, [474].
• Christianity, [22], [30].
• Christians, [10].
• Church relations, [241].
• Cicero, [97], [189], [248], [333], [403].
• Circular credits, [327].
• "Circular notes," [328].
• Circulating capital defined, [99].
• Civil Law of Rome, [206].
• Civil war, [353].
• Civil wars, [260].
• Civilization, [10], [89], [252], [366].
• Claims of conscience, [243].
• Classes of facts, [66].
• Classes of salable things, [7].
• Classes of valuable things, [5], [62].
• "Clearing house," [318], [321].
• Cleon, [421].
• Clergyman, [4].
• Clerks at the clearing, [320].
• Clifford, Mr. Justice, [357].
• Clog of economy, [33].
• "Cloth-workers' guild," [258].
• Coal, [497], [527].
• Cobden, Richard, [202].
• Codification, [206].
• Coffee and tea, [488].
• Cog-wheel railway, [1].
• Cohoes, [3].
• Coin, [429].
• Coined money of two kinds, [426].
• Coke, Lord, [89].
• Colbert, [404].
• Colonies of New England, [249].
• Columbus, [26].
• Commerce, [17], [402].
• Commercial credits, [49], [271].
• Commercial crises, [347].
• Commercial treaty of 1860, [30].
• Commodatum, [276], [340].
• Commodities, [2], [8], [20].
• Commodities defined, [80].
• Common law, [9], [88], [130], [205].
• "Company," [4].
• Company of the Indies, [438].
• "Compete," [464].
• Competition, [44], [121], [175].
• "Compromise Silver Bill," [475].
• Conditions of production, [99].
• Conditions of a science, [67].
• Conditions of trade, [15].
• Congress, [256], [288], [450].
• Connecticut, [100], [435].
• Conrad, John, [183].
• "Consolidated annuities," [274].
• Consols, [285].
• Constancy of employment, [219].
• Constitution of the United States, [133], [178], [256], [358], [444], [474], [494], [572], [578].
• Constitutional law, [429].
• Continental Congress, [441].
• Cooley, Judge, [113].
• Co-operation, [268].
• Cooper Union, [222].
• Copper skewers, [385].
• Copyrights, [132].
• Core of money, [378].
• Corn laws, [58], [177], [217].
• Cost by railway mile run, [233].
• Cost of capital, [161], [165], [231].
• Cost of labor, [161], [231].
• Costs of carriage, [466].
• Costs of production, [159], [165], [397], [462].
• Cotton, [105].
• "Cotton City," [498].
• Cotton-gin, [100].
• Cottons and silks, [457].
• Coupons, [337].
• Court calendars, [254].
• Craft-box, [226].
• Craftsmen, [259].
• Credit, [372].
• Credit-claims, [6].
• Credit defined, [275].
• Credits, [8], [20], [58].
• Credits are capital, [338].
• Credits as taxable, [555].
• Crompton, Samuel, [110].
• Crossed cheques, [321].
• Current rate per centum, [165].
• Curtis, George T., [573].
• Custom, [224].
• Customs-taxes, [238], [474].

D

• Damascus, [8].
• Davis, Mr. Justice, [357].
• Dawes, Senator, [584].
• Dawn of history, [8].
• Dealer in services, [6].
• Debits at the bank, [6].
• Debt, its etymology, [275].
• Debts of the bank, [6].
• Decatur, Commodore, [482].
• Decennial Census, [519].
• Deduction, [62], [69].
• Deductive sciences, [63].
• De Foe, [100].
• Demand acts upon value, [54].
• Demand and supply, [369].
• Demand defined, [52], [190].
• Denarius of Rome, [238], [385].
• Denomination-dollar, [388], [390].
• Denominations of money, [372], [388].
• "Depositaries," [295].
• Deposit-banking, [293], [295], [297].
• Deposits, [296].
• Descartes, [68].
• Desires, [18], [64], [75], [138].
• Detroit, [491].
• Dey of Algiers, [482].
• Diffusion of taxes, [571].
• Diminishing profits, [228].
• Direct taxation, [553].
• Disadvantages of credit, [271], [343].
• Discount, [273].
• Discount defined, [301].
• Diversity of advantage, [25], [102], [117], [131], [136], [262], [455], [458].
• Divine purpose, [26].
• Division of labor, [252], [257], [374].
• Dock laborers' strike, [313].
• Doctors' fees, [204].
• Doctrine of chances, [221].
• Doctrine of rent, [146].
• Dollar-bill, [427].
• "Dollars," [359].
• Domestic trade, [481].
• Dorsetshire laborer, [223].
• Drachm, [385].
• Drawee, [329].
• Drawer and bearer, [330].
• Duke of Orleans, [437].
• Durability of machinery, [168].
• Dutch capital, [166].
• Dutch East India Co., [280].
• Duty, [65].

E

• Easiness of learning, [219].
• East India Co., [114], [132].
• Economics, [31], [40], [64].
• Efficiency, [164].
• Efforts, [20], [59].
• Efforts and renderings, [32].
• Egypt, [9], [11], [24].
• Electricity and lightning, [70].
• Elliott, Ebenezer, [202].
• Ely, Professor, [251].
• "Empire State," [286].
• English recoinage, [422].
• English shilling, [317].
• Enlarging wages, [228].
• Ephron, [9], [384].
• Equation of international demand, [468].
• Erie Canal, [286].
• Estimates, [22], [34], [39], [43], [60].
• Ethics, [64], [75].
• Etymology, [37].
• Etymology of "credit," [275].
• Euphrates country, [392].
• Euripides, [237].
• Europe, [9].
• Evarts, William M., [73].
• Exact sciences, [63], [65].
• "Exchange against," [314].
• "Exchange in favor," [315].
• Exchequer, [549], [568].
• Excise tax, [560].
• Exemption from taxes, [570].
• Experience and experiments, [65].
• Exports, [462].
• Exposure, [15].
• Ezekiel the prophet, [11], [83].