1st Edition

Gold Prices and Wages (Routledge Revivals)

By J. A. Hobson Copyright 2011
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1913, this Routledge Revivals title reissues J. A. Hobson’s seminal analysis of the causal link between the rise in gold prices and the increase in wages and consumer buying power in the early years of the Twentieth Century. Contrary to the assertions of some notable contemporary economists and businessmen, Hobson contended that the relationship between gold prices and wages... Read more

1. The Rise of Prices  2. The Price Problem: Quantity of Money  3. Gold and Prices  4. Gold and Credit  5. The Basis of Credit  6. Retardation of the Supply of Goods  7. The Distribution of Wealth  8. The Theory of Money and Prices

Biography

J. A. Hobson