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STABILIZING THE DOLLAR
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2. Some of the Chief Writings on the Principles of Index Numbers
William Stanley Jevons. Investigations in currency and finance. Sections II-IV, pp. 13-150, give an index number computed from 39 articles from 1782 to 1865. London, 1909. (Reprints of various articles published earlier.)
F. Y. Edgeworth. Reports of the Committee (of the British Association for the Advancement of Science) appointed for the purpose of investigating the best methods of ascertaining and measuring variations in the value of the monetary standard. In Reports of the Association for 1887, pp. 247-301; 1888, pp. 188-219; 1889, pp. 133-164.
Correa Moylan Walsh. The measurement of general exchange-value. 580 pp. Macmillan, 1901.
G. H. Knibbs. Prices, Price Indexes, and Cost of Living in Australia. Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Labour and Industrial Branch, Report No. 1, Appendix. McCarron, Bird & Co., Melbourne. December, 1912.
G. H. Knibbs. Price Indexes, their Nature and Limitations, the Technique of Computing them, and their Application in Ascertaining the Purchasing-Power of Money. Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics, Labour and Industrial Branch, Report No. 9. McCarron, Bird & Co., Melbourne. 1918.
Irving Fisher. The Purchasing Power of Money, Chapter 10 and Appendix to Chapter 10. Macmillan, 1911.
Wesley Clair Mitchell. The Making and Using of Index Numbers, U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bulletin No. 173, pp. 5-114, 1915.
3. Remote Anticipations of the Plan to Stabilize the Dollar
A. Bimetallism. There would be little use, even if it were possible, to include all writings which touch on the need for combating the instability of monetary standards. I shall, therefore, merely run over, very briefly, the proposals which anticipate only remotely the proposal of this book. These fall under four heads:
Bimetallism and other schemes for combining the precious metals.
The Gold Exchange Standard.
