Books on Banking, Finance and Economics
Legal Tender: A Study in English and American Monetary History. By Sophronisba P. Breckinridge of the Department of Political Science, University of Chicago. 8vo. Cloth, postpaid, $2.12.
Contest for Sound Money. By A. Barton Hepburn, LL. D. Postpaid, $2.00.
Original data is placed before the reader so as to enable him to examine currency questions and reach his own conclusions.
The Modern Trust Company. By T. B. Kirkbridge and J. E. Sterrett. Postpaid, §2.60 net.
The Fundamental Problem in Monetary Science. By Correa Moy lan Walsh. Postpaid, $1.50.
The author has fully determined what is in good money the quality that constitutes its goodness.
Government Regulation of Railway Rates. By Hugo R. Meyer. A Professor of Political Economy in the University of Chicago. Postpaid, $1.60 net.
Foreign Exchange. Tables converting foreign money into United States money, and United States money into foreign money at all commercial rates o£ exchange used in financial transactions between the United States and foreign countries. All about foreign exchange, including various forms of foreign commercial paper and terms, abbreviations, etc. For banks, bankers, steamship agents, importers, exporters and manufacturers. Sent for inspection without expense. Cloth, $5.00.
The Credit Man and His Work. By E. St. Elmo Lewis. Postpaid, $2.00.
This book stands unrivaled in first position for its thoroughness and for the authoritative way in which the whole complex subject of credits is handled. It is for the practical man and will well equip him for any position which has to do with credit work in business, banking, or corporation management.
A History of the Greenbacks, with Special Reference to the Economic Consequences of their Issue. By Wesley Clair Mitchell of the Department of Political Economy, University of California. 8vo. Cloth, 578 pages. Postpaid, $4.25.
The experience of the United States with the Greenbacks is of peculiar interest from both the historical and economical points of view. From the former, the greenback issues appear, at the time of the Civil War, as the central feature of the government's financial policy and after its close as the cause of a new political party and the subject of prolonged controversies. From the economic point of view the paper-standard period from 1862 to 1878 is interesting because it furnished an unequaled opportunity for studying the effects of changes in the purchasing power of money.
Paine’s Banking Laws. By Hon. Willis S Paine, LL. D., ex-Super-intendent of Banking, State of New York. Postpaid, $5.15.
This leather bound volume includes the Statutes of New York on Banking. The National Banking Act, and a complete history of the banking system. Full annotation also embraces the latest decisions of the Courts and Attorney General.
Moody’s Manual of Railroads and Corporation Securities. Eighth Annual Number, 1907. Standard Reference Book of the Railroads and Industrial Corporations of the United States. Price, in red cloth, $10.00. In full Russia leather, $12.00, Express charges prepaid.
Banking Publicity. By Francis R. Morison. Price, per copy, $4.00 net. Delivered.
A manual on the Art of Advertising the Business of Financial Institutions.
The Truth about the Trusts. By John Moody, Editor “Moody’s Manual of Corporation Securities.” Popular edition, $z net; De Luxe edition, $5 net; add 28 cents for postage.
A Description and Analysis of the American Trust Movement.
Open Mints and Free Banking. Postpaid, $1.35.
“The author gives an intelligent, comprehensive survey of the present condition of the currency,and discusses in a calm, thoughtful, and unprejudiced manner the claims of the advocates of both the gold and silver standards, and also the principles of those who regard paper money as superior to bank-notes.”
i Principles and Practice of Finance. By Edward Carroli.. Postpaid,
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A Practical Guide for Bankers, Merchants, and Lawyers. Together with a Summary of the National and I State Banking Laws, and the Legal Rates of Interest, Tables of Foreign Coins, and Glossary of Commercial and Financial Terms.
, A History Of Modern Banks of Issue. By Charles A. Conant. Postpaid, $3.14. Second Edition.
With an Account of the Economic Crisis of the Present Century.
The History of Currency (1252 to 1894). By W. A. Shaw. Postpaid, $3.9°.
Being an Account of the Gold and Silver Monies and Monetary Standard of Europe and America, togethei with an Examination of the Effects of Currency and Exchange Phenomena on Commercial and National Progress and Well-Being.
Funds and Their Uses. A Treatise on Instruments, Methods, and Institutions in Modern Finance. By Dr. F. A. Cleveland, of the University of Pennsylvania. (Appleton’s Business Series.) Illustrated. i2mo. Cloth, postpaid, $1.40.
Essentials of Business Law. By Francis M. Burdick, LL. D., Professor of Law in Columbia University. 1 2mo. Postpaid, $1.50.
This book is not written for lawyers, nor for professional students of law, but it shows how the rules of law governing the commonest business transactions have been developed, and it tells what they are to-day. Technical law terms have been discarded as tar as possible, and when they are used they are so explained and illustrated as to be easily understood. The principles of law are not set forth in the form and style known to the leather-bound law book, but are simplified and expressed in clear, lucid, everyday speech.
The Work of Wall Street. By Sereno S. Pratt. (The second volume in Appleton’s Business Series.) izmo. Cloth, postpaid, $1.50.
Mr. Pratt has succeeded admirably in presenting, with sufficient fullness of detail, an entertaining account of the evolution of Wall Street, of the origin, the meaning, the scope, and the operations of the stock market, of the machinery of the Stock Exchange, of the connection between speculation and the banks.
Interest Tables. By Bryant, Stratton and Packard. Large 41:0. Half roan, $5.00. Showing the Interest on any Sum from One to One Hundred Thousand Dollars, for from One Day to Four Years, at Seven, Six, Five, and One Per Cent per Annum.
Printed Forms. American Bankers’ Association, Savings Bank Section, Edited by Secretary Wm. Hanhart and approved by the Committee on Printed Forms. Will be sent post paid for $12.00.
Contains six hundred standard printed forms in daily use in the leading and most successful Savings Banks of the United States. Bound in flexible seal with detachabfe leaves. All new forms furnished free.
Clearing Houses : Their History, Methods, and Administration.
By James G. Cannon, Vice-President of the Fourth National Bank of the City of New York. Illustrated. I zmo. Cloth, prepaid, $2.75.
The Monetary and Banking Problem. By Logan G. McPherson.
12mo. Cloth, $1.00. Postage, 10c.
These articles have elicited the praise of both economists and bankers.
Recent Economic Changes, and Their Effect on the Production and Distribution of Wealth and the Well-being of Society.
By David Ames Wells. umo. Cloth, $2.00. Postage, 15c.
The National Bank Act, with Amendments. Annotated by J. M. Gould. Postpaid, $3.12.
No one can know too much about the BANK ACT.and all the disputed and much-discussed points are fully covered in this valuable work.
Morse on Banks and Banking. Revised and greatly enlarged by Frank Parsons. Two Volumes. Postpaid, $ 1 2.00.
Incorporation and Organization of Corporations. By T. G. Frost. Postpaid, $3-75•
The Cost of Competition. By Sidney A. Reeve. Postpaid, $2.1 7.
The book of more than 600 pages is devoted to criticisms of social and economic conditions with, of course, the declaration that socialism is the remedy for all injustice and inequality.
Trusts of To-day. By Gilbert Holland Montague. Postpaid, $1.32. American Industrial Problems. By W. B. Lawson. Postpaid, $2.12. Lippincott’s New Gazetteer. Postpaid, $10.50.
This publication is an accurate picture of every corner of the globe in its minutest details as it exists in the twentieth century.
Money and Credit. By Wilbur Aldrich. Postpaid, $1.37.
This volume contains much valuable information and much sound discussion on money and credit.
Credit. By J. Lawrence Laughlin of the Department of Political Economy, University of Chicago. Postpaid, 53c.
The nature of credit and its effect on prices have long been a subject of disagreement among economists. Its basis is commonly assumed to be money or bank reserves.
The Pitfalls Of Speculation. By Thomas Gibson. Postpaid, $1.20.
A book dealing exclusively with marginal speculation and analyzing in a clear and simple manner the causes of failure in speculation, with a suggestion as to the remedies.
The Use of Loan Credit in Modern Business. By Thorstein B. Veblen. Postpaid, 28c.
Corporation Finance. By Thomas L. Greene, Postpaid, $1.37.
A Study of the Principles and methods of the Management of the Finances of corporations m the United States, with special reference to the valuation of corporation securities. Second edition.
The above books are the best of their kind, and will be promptly forwarded upon receipt of price.
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