...Susan Howson By Meghnad Desai. London: Faber and Faber, 2006. ix; 154 pp. £16.99. 2009 Stock, Noel. 1970 . The Life of Ezra Pound . London: Routledge Kegan Paul. Surette, Leon. 1999 . Pound in Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to Anti-Semitism . Urbana: University of Illinois...

... in a run of 8,000 impressions that were sold for 5 shillings each. He grossed 2,000 pounds from this paint- 1. Although I generally mean “fine art reproductive prints” when I refer to prints or engravings, Weatherill’s data refer to anything from a popular broadsheet bought from a ped- dler to a fine...

...David Laidler . By Michael S. Lawlor. Houndmills, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. xvi; 357 pp. Hardback, $100.00. 2009 Book Reviews The Route of All Evil: The Political Economy of Ezra Pound. By Meghnad Desai. London: Faber and Faber, 2006. ix; 154 pp. £16.99. In August 1934...

...David Laidler 2009 Book Reviews The Route of All Evil: The Political Economy of Ezra Pound. By Meghnad Desai. London: Faber and Faber, 2006. ix; 154 pp. £16.99. In August 1934 Lionel Robbins wrote to Ezra Pound in Rapallo, Italy, agreeing to answer Pound’s questionnaire...

... Legacy , edited by M. Fry. London: Routledge. Book Reviews The Route of All Evil: The Political Economy of Ezra Pound. By Meghnad Desai. London: Faber and Faber, 2006. ix; 154 pp. £16.99. In August 1934 Lionel Robbins wrote to Ezra Pound in Rapallo, Italy, agreeing to answer Pound’s...

... 165 pounds Flemish, for to have at London 100 pounds sterling, which is at 33 shillings of their money, for our pound sterling of 20 shillings payable at usance which is one month. The hundred pounds being here received, is made over again at 35 shillings 6 pence, or 36 shillings...

... suppose that all the paper of a particular bank, which the cir- culation of the country can easily absorb and employ, amounts ex- actly to forty thousand pounds; and that for answering occasional demands, this bank is obliged to keep at all times in its coffers ten thousand pounds...

... to the laws of thermodynamics, debts do not rot with old age and are not consumed in the process of living. On the contrary, they grow at so much per cent per an- num, by the well-known mathematical laws of simple and com- pound interest . . . . For sufficient reason, the process of com...

... this tree had been taken down, at one hundred and fifty years old, it would, at two shillings a foot, have produced eight pounds ten shillings: the interest of which would have amounted, in the course of fifty years, to more than twenty pounds; beside the use of the land, during that time...

... . Unpublished manuscript. British Library Additional MS 70517. Fay, C. R. 1932-34 . Locke versus Lowndes. Cambridge Historical Journal 4 : 143 -55. Feavearyear, Albert. 1963 . The Pound Sterling: A History of English Money . 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press. [Gervaize, Isaac]. 1696 . A Proposal...

... for one pound sterling. All new ruble issues were to be dependent on the presentation of pounds sterling [clause 8-c-(i Reciprocally, the presentation of new rubles to the caisse allowed pounds to be obtained in exchange in the form of checks on London banks. In the French version, Keynes added...

...—the Banker. Pts. 1–2. Three Banks Review 104 : 46 -57; 105:38-52. Armstrong, Anthony. 1973 . The Church of England, the Methodists, and Society: 1700–1850 . Totawa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield. Cannan, Edwin, ed. [1919] 1969 . The Paper Pound of 1797–1821: The Bullion Report . Reprint, New...

... cents a pound, equal, in the whole, to $4,200,00, of which $2,400,000 go into the pockets of a very few sugar planters [1980, 2271. He also computed the subsidy per worker in the sugar plantations, using a figure of 50,000 as the “whole number of hands, in Louisiana, employed...

... expressed in Heckscher 1922b. Absent a quick return to gold, the options left were stabilizing the price level or the exchange rate. The natural choice of currency to peg the krona to was the pound sterling. Pegging to the pound entailed the same type of problems as going back to gold. First...

... to economics, and vice-versa. In the Beginning: A “Brooding Omnipresence in the Sky” At the threshold of the current law and economics movement, Roscoe Pound, an eminent legal philosopher, pinpointed the beginning of legal A Historical Perspective 95...

... percent of British sterling equivalent. Rhode Island issued eight “banks” of paper currency totaling more than 400,000 pounds sterling between 1715 and 1750, and as in the Massachusetts experience, its exchange value declined sharply. Such emissions were held in check in Jefferson’s home...

... orders or in payments past due. One of Engels’s primary roles was to seek new orders and make sure they were paid on time.11 In 1860, Ermen & Engels in England had an estimated 60,000 pounds in capital and 800 employees (Henderson 1971). The 1861 census records that Godfrey Engels employed 150...

...” to a tax and just as defensible; that the suppression of one-pound notes caused a scarcity of ready capital and led to economic distress. A point of some originality perhaps was his linking together the incidence of gluts with growing industrial concentration. l3 We ignore Robinson’s...

... Elgar. Boskin, Michael, etal. (Boskin Commission). 1996 . Toward a More Accurate Measure of the Cost of Living: Final Report to the Senate Finance Committee from the Advisory Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index . Washington, D.C.: U.S. Congress. Cannan, Edwin. 1925 . The Paper Pound...

... Pound of 1797–1821. 2nd ed. London: F. Cass & Co. Clive, J. 1957 . Scotch Reviewers: The Edinburgh Review, 1802–1815 . London: Faber and Faber. Coats, A. W., ed. 1983 . Methodological Controversy in Economics: Historical Essays in Honour of T. W. Hutchison . London: Jai Press Inc...