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| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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eng |
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n-us |
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HB 171 |
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.S34 1938 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Scherman, Harry. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The promises men live by : |
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a new approach to economics / |
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by Harry Scherman. |
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New York : |
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Random House, |
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1938. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxvi, 492 páginas ; |
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24 cm. |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introductory: In which some peculiarities of economics as a science are considered and the intention of this inquiry is set forth, ix -- |
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I. We take hold of a loose end of truth in the tangle of human affairs, 3 -- |
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II. Some basic psychological aspects of labor to which long habit has blinded men, 12 -- |
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III. The role of promises in production-revealing how almost all modern wealth is given away as soon as possible after it is produced, 24 -- |
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IV. To market! to market! the only economic area where swaps now take place as they did at the dawn of human society, 37 -- |
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V. Are the promises of consumers dangerous or beneficial?-a common fallacy about instalment contracts, 55 -- |
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VI. A brief analysis of the compulsions behind economic promises, and why the promises that center around rent are unique, 69 -- |
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VII. The vital differences between short and long promises-and why the long promises that center around land have produced the same type of events as far back as there are records, 85 -- |
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VIII. How banks constitute the focal points of the interdependent promises of men, 115 -- |
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IX. How bank promises are used as money far more than money itself, and how the creation of bank money ls controlled, 138 -- |
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X. The center of the vast spider web of promises in each nation-its central bank; and how it ties up the promises of individuals with those of governments, 159 -- |
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XI . How the promises made to and made by insurance companies differ from those of banks, 182 -- |
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XII. How our loose end of truth explains the rise of corporations and one of the most deep-going changes in the long career of human beings on the planet, 195 -- |
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XIII. Government promises and how they compare in reliability with those of individuals, 225 -- |
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XIV. A simple explanation of money, with a little history, revealing how its modern mysteries principally arise from failure to distinguish between a promise and a thing, 254 -- |
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XV. Why is gold the world's money?, 287 -- |
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XVI. The true relation of governments to money and what the record shows about three thousand years of fraud, 302 -- |
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XVII. How paper money originated from the fraud of rulers, 318 -- |
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XVIII. How all the considerations which affect other economic promises govern modern money as well, 347 -- |
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XIX. Who owns what today? how modern ownership of wealth differs from that of all our ancestors, 363 -- |
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XX. How the volume of promises made by men both measure and determine the well-being of society: the heart of the mystery of business cycles, 390 -- |
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XXI. The processes by which the completion and incompletion of economic promises bring about the rhythmic phases of the business cycle, 416 -- |
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XXII. In which we visualize an ideal society, and consider what can be done by any ordinary citizen to help bring it about, 457 -- |
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Index, 483. |
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Teoría económica. |
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Finanzas. |
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Monografía - Colección General |
