A Brief Bibliography Of Bimetallism.
“The Report of the International Monetary Conference, 1878” (p. 754), contains an extended bibliography on money, by S. Dana Horton. Chevalier's third volume of his “Cours d'Économie politique,” entitled “Monnaie,” also gives a bibliography.
I. Standard of Value.—See Jevons, “Money and the Mechanism of Exchange,” chaps iii, xxv; S. Dana Horton, “Gold and Silver,” chap. iv, p. 36; F. A. Walker, “Political Economy,” pp. 363-368, “Money, Trade, and Industry,” pp. 56-77; Wolowski, “L'Or et l'Argent,” pp. 7, 22, 207; Mill, “Principles of Political Economy,” book iii, chap. xv; Walras, “Journal des Économistes,” October, 1882, pp. 5-13.
II. Bimetallic Theory.—Horton, “Gold and Silver,” p. 29; F. A. Walker, “Money, Trade, and Industry,” p. 157, “Political Economy,” p. 408; Giffen, “Fortnightly Review,” vol. xxxii (1879), p. 279; Wolowski, “L'Or et l'Argent,” p. 35; Jevons, ibid., chap, xii; A. J. Wilson, “Reciprocity, Bimetallism, and Land Reform,” p. 107; S. Bourne, “Trade, Population, and Food,” p. 227; Seyd, “The Decline of Prosperity,” and the various pamphlets of Cernuschi.
III. Operation of Gresham's Law.—Macaulay, chap. xxi for clipped coin of 1695; Jevons, ibid., pp. 80-85, also gives an example taken from the Japanese currency; for the case of France, see “Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Depreciation of Silver, 1876,” p. xlii, and Appendix, pp. 86, 148; for the United States, see supra, [book iii, chap. vii, § 3]. See, also, Lord Liverpool's “Treatise on the Coins of the Realm,” chap. xii, for changes in the coin of England.
IV. Compensatory Effect of Two Standards.—Jevons, ibid., pp. 139, 140; F. A. Walker, “Political Economy,” pp. 411-416; Wolowski, “L'Or et l'Argent,” p. 28; Mannequin, “Journal des Économistes,” August, 1878, p. 202.
V. Effect of a League of States, or Law, on the Relative Value of Gold and Silver.—Giffen, “Fortnightly Review,” vol. xxxii (1879), pp. 285-290; Wolowski, “L'Or et l'Argent,” pp. 23, 24, 31; F. A. Walker, “Political Economy,” p. 410, “Report of the International Monetary Conference, 1878,” p. 74; Sumner, “Princeton Review,” vol. iv, p. 563; S. Dana Horton, “Report of the International Monetary Conference, 1878,” p. 741; Bourne, “Trade, Population, and Food,” pp. 228, 230; Jevons, “Contemporary Review,” vol. xxxix (1881), p. 750; S. Newcomb, “International Review” (1879), p. 314.
VI. Production of Gold and Silver; Relative Value of the Two Metals.—Ad. Soetbeer, Petermann's “Mittheilungen,” No. 57; “House of Commons Report on Depreciation of Silver,” 1876, Appendix, pp. 11, 12, 24; Bourne, “Statistical Journal,” vol. xlii, p. 409, gives Sir H. Hay's figures corrected by him to 1878; Spofford's “American Almanac,” 1878, gives tables from the “Journal des Économistes”; the figures of Seyd, Hay, Jacob, and Tooke and Newmarch are in the “House of Commons Report,” above. Also see, supra, [book iii, chap. vi], for references.
The relative values of gold and silver since 1834, as given in Pixley and Abell's (London) tables, are trustworthy. Previous to 1834 there is much uncertainty. Soetbeer, ibid., gives Hamburg quotations since 1687. Another table, probably incorrect in places, is that of White, see “Report of the International Monetary Conference,” 1878, p. 647.
VII. Demonetization of Silver by Germany.—For copy of laws of 1871 and 1873, see “Report of Directors of the United States Mint, 1873,” p. 82; “House of Commons Report on Depreciation of Silver,” 1876, p. 18; “Conférence Monétaire Internationale,” 1881, index, p. 215 for “Allemagne.”