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Recent Economic Changes, and Their Effect on the Production and Distribution of Wealth and the ... By David Ames Wells
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By David Ames Wells
Published 1889
D. Appleton and company
493 pages
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Nov 2, 2005
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"In the main the following pages are a reproduction of a series of papers originally contributed to and published in "The (New York) Popular science monthly,' and in part in "The (London) Contemporary review" (1887 and 1888)"--Pref.
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bessemer, phylloxera, workingmen
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191
divergency, diamonds, hops
VI
201
bullion, hankers, coinage
Changes In recent years in the relative values of the precious metals
224
demonetization, coinage, rupee
VII
260
bounties, pauperism, employés
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Liverpool - Page 248
Nor does the difference in their respective currencies affect the judgment of the buyer of wheat in Liverpool. Is any single factor in the elements of ...
more pages: 7 38 39 90 112 165 168 213 378
Manchester - Page 408
of increase than was experienced during the same period in the industries of that district of England of which its city of Manchester is the center. ...
more pages: 104 110 112 266 267 480 486
Chemnitz - Page 369
the cities of Chemnitz (where the hand-looms are being rapidly displaced), in Crefeld, Essen, and in Düsseldorf, the standard of living and of comfort ...
more pages: 365 480
Chicago - Page 335
Contrast these experiences with the fact that when Chicago burned up in 1871 a train loaded with relief contributions from the city of New York, ...
more pages: 82 90 98 108 115 160 164 378 422
Glasgow - Page 471
Adding this to the price in Glasgow gives us a fraction under $15 per ton, as the price of Scotch pig landed in the United States; and deducting this ...
more pages: 39 104
London - Page 226
but in addition there were French bills of exchange which gave Germany a title to gold in places like London, on which such billi were negotiated.
more pages: 30 28 168 225 230 287 307 402 414
Minneapolis - Page 409
Paul and Minneapolis as a basis, recent investigations also show a result of his investigations, that while from 1872 to 1888 wages advanced on an ...
more pages: 58 413
Brooklyn - Page 453
but the following one seems especially worthy of record: On the ferries between New York and Brooklyn, the rates of toll were some years ago reduced ...
more pages: 385 480
New York - Page 335
Contrast these experiences with the fact that when Chicago burned up in 1871 a train loaded with relief contributions from the city of New York, ...
more pages: 32 38 108 164 165 166 213 450 453
Philadelphia - Page 108
He never thinks of going to his corner tinman, because he knows that in New York and Chicago and Philadelphia, and other large towns and cities, ...
more pages: 14 149 319 469 471
Berlin - Page 453
They do, no doubt, outstrip Englishmen very frequently, almost as frequently as they outstrip Germans in Berlin or Vienna. ...
more pages: 25 324 369 400 447
Paris - Page 424
the same commodities from very distant places for the same or a less price, and the value of land in the environs of Paris has naturally declined. ...
more pages: 24 281 282 410 449 453
Boston - Page 32
not acquainted: In the winter of 1884 the writer journeyed from New York to Washington with an eminent Boston merchant engaged in the Calcutta trade. ...
more pages: 422
Vienna - Page 453
They do, no doubt, outstrip Englishmen very frequently, almost as frequently as they outstrip Germans in Berlin or Vienna. ...
more pages: 25 346
St. Louis - Page 422
average rate of interest in the cities of Boston; New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Chicago, as computed from the record of public ...
more pages: 101 166
Milan - Page 274
duty on a dead body sent from France to Milan for cremation, and the same amount as export duty on the ashes as they were carried back into France. ...
Düsseldorf - Page 369
the cities of Chemnitz (where the hand-looms are being rapidly displaced), in Crefeld, Essen, and in Düsseldorf, the standard of living and of comfort ...
Bonn - Page 212
NAmE, of Bonn. The great reduction in the time and cost of distribution of commodities, and the facility with which purchases can be made and credits ...
Swansea - Page 475
The price of coke for Bessemer pig in Cardifi Newport, and Swansea is stated to be $3.51 to $3.57. La South Wales the cost of a ton of coke is given ...
Birmingham - Page 112
British ship-canals, as from Sheffield to the Humber, and with a view of cheapening transportation from Birmingham, are also under consideration. ...
more pages: 6
Genoa - Page 31
If Austria wants anything of Indian product, it stops en route, by the Suez Canal, at Trieste; if Italy, at Venice or Genoa; if France, at Marseilles; ...
Marseilles - Page 31
If Austria wants anything of Indian product, it stops en route, by the Suez Canal, at Trieste; if Italy, at Venice or Genoa; if France, at Marseilles; ...
Sheffield - Page 112
Propositions for the construction of other important British ship-canals, as from Sheffield to the Humber, and with a view of cheapening ...
Venice - Page 31
If Austria wants anything of Indian product, it stops en route, by the Suez Canal, at Trieste; if Italy, at Venice or Genoa; if France, at Marseilles; ...
Mayence - Page 369
Writing from Mayence under date of January, 1887, United States Commercial Agent J. H. Smith reports that, “although business is in an unsatisfactory ...
Hanover - Page 236
In Germany, “although the imperial mark is now everywhere recognized as the standard, all Germans, whether they live in Bavaria, Prussia, or Hanover, ...
New Orleans - Page 337
and states that, if the ravages of the phylloxera (vine-pest) could be checked, and the price * When the battle of New Orleans was fought, in 1815, ...
Nottingham - Page 371
“In Nottingham,” says Mr. Edwin Chadwick, the distinguished English economist,t “the introduction of more complex and more costly machinery for the ...
more pages: 366
Galveston, Texas - Page 166
Louis, from $2.25 to 40c.; to Galveston, Texas, from $5.50 to 75c.; to San Francisco, from $7.45 to $1.00; to Washington, from 73c. to 25c. ...
San Francisco - Page 166
Louis, from $2.25 to 40c.; to Galveston, Texas, from $5.50 to 75c.; to San Francisco, from $7.45 to $1.00; to Washington, from 73c. to 25c. ...
Milwaukee - Page 101
Louis, and Milwaukee cost from $250000 to $500000 each, and include “steaai” as well as water-power. The consequence of requiring so much more capital ...
Brussels - Page 62
Laveleye, editor of the “Moniteur des Intéréts Matériels,” at Brussels, that the industrial activity of the greater part of this century has been ...
Buffalo - Page 79
which was thus described in an address before the “National Millers' Association” by its vice-president, at their annual meeting at Buffalo, in June, ...
Cincinnati - Page 481
Cincinnati, market prices for 1884-'87, 201. Circulation, monetary, of the United States, 221-228. Cities, aggregation of population in, 852; ...
Leicester - Page 366
disturbances i¿bout tile commencement of the present century among a large body of operatives in the counties of Leicester and Nottingham, in England, ...
Bombay - Page 34
upon the marketing of the cereal crops of the United States is shown by the circumstance that the freight rates on the transport of grain from Bombay ...
more pages: 32 242 243 434 480
Calcutta - Page 164
Freight, on the average, between Calcutta and England experienced a decline of about fifty per cent.
more pages: 30 32 168 169
Shanghai - Page 335
was not over two hundred miles; and yet when the foreign residents of Shanghai sent through the missionaries an important contribution of relief, ...
Iquique - Page 156
to the port of Iquique on the sea-coast, for the transportation of coal, provisions, and other material up, and the nitrate as a return freight down. ...
Singapore - Page 305
well established that German beet-root sugar has been and is now exported half round the globe, and largely sold in Singapore, the center of the great ...