The Money Problem: Inquiries Concerning the Nature and Office of Money, and the Source of Its Value; With Remarks on Inflation, Commercial Lunacy, and the Downfall of Prices (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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At the time the legal tender act was taken up for discussion, in January, 1862, the people generally took but little interest in it, and comparatively few, as I apprehend, understood its fearful significance. It is charitable to suppose that Congress itself (or a majority of it) was not fully aware of what it was about to do. History had been forgotten; the costly and bitter experiences of the Revolution were set aside; the remonstrances of e few earnest men were unavailing, and an experiment repeated which a hundred times had failed with disaster. When the law had begun to work out the expected results, I undertook to write the early history of paper money in Connecticut, hoping in that way to do my part in setting forth the perils of the course pursued by the government. The work, entitled "A Historical Account of Connecticut Currency, Continental Money, and the Finances of the Revolution," 192 pp., appeared just at the close of the war. It made a part of the first volume of the New Haven Colony Historical Society.

Twelve years later, after the law had wrought out the mischief it was fitted to produce, and the speculating phrensy had run through its customary stages, culminating in the panic of September, 1873, I prepared and printed for private circulation a small pamphlet, in which I attempted a brief exposition of the nature and office of money, and the laws which govern it. It bore the title of "The Money Problem." A few friends appeared to lb ink so well of it that I have undertaken to write a second essay on the same general subject, in the latter treating of topics not mentioned or barely alluded to in the other. Each was intended to be an independent article, more or less complete in itself, which fact may account for occasional repetitions. Both will be found in the pages which follow; but in some eases the last essay - "The Money Problem Again" - will be put in covers of its own. If I have failed in any or in all, I have done no more than many others who have written at more length, and spoiled paper in larger amount.

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