Author: William Stanley Jevons

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Published: 2015-07-06

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9781330805305

Excerpt from Investigations in Currency Finance Towards the end of 1881 my husband collected the following papers, with the intention of publishing the volume in the spring of 1882; but the state of his health, combined with the pressure of other work, obliged him to proceed more slowly than he had hoped to do, and he therefore postponed the publication until the autumn. When he laid the book aside, hoping to resume work upon it in the autumn, he had seen all but the last two papers through the press; but the manuscript of the concluding one was still unfinished, and the Introduction, which was to have been a long and full one, bringing up the results of the papers to the present time, was hardly commenced. With regard to the Bibliography, though the greater number of the entries had been written out, there was still a good deal of arranging and of verifying references to be done; and only about one-third of the Index was made. Several of the diagrams had been originally published with the papers, and most of the others had merely to be reduced from the large diagrams prepared at the time the papers were read. The diagrams relating to the Bank Accounts, however, having been prepared in 1862, at the time the first paper was read at the British Association, did not contain the results of the Tables relating to the later years; they have therefore been entirely re-cast by Mr. Mabson, of "The Statist." I may add that Mr. Jevons had begun to prepare a diagram on the price of wheat at Delhi from 1763 to 1836, but only outlines, insufficient to indicate the plan of it, were left, and therefore it could not be carried out and inserted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.