导语

  

内容提要

  

    本书是一部经典性的著作，在经济学说史上占有不容忽视的重要地位。本书讲述了价格和货币流通状况的历史。作者对时间进行了严格的划分，分别介绍了不同年代间的谷物贸易、谷物价、谷物以外其他农产品的价格、物料流通状态、银行的监管问题等内容，并具体说明了各个时间区间的特点以及该时间段的谷物价格和大致产量。除此之外，作者还就《谷物法》以及金融机构的相关内容进行阐述，介绍了《谷物法》早期、中期和后期的特点及其颁布和实施后所带来的相关影响，自由贸易的原则在商业立法中的应用，英国银行的管理和相关政策，国家对金融、银行和信贷机构所采取的政策等。

INTRODUCTION1
PART Ⅰ ON THE EFFECT OF THE SEASONS
  CHAPTER ⅠGENERAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECT
  CHAPTER ⅡEFFECTS OF QUANTITY ON PRICE
  CHAPTER ⅢON THE CHARACTER OF THE  SEASONS AND THE STATE OF
  PRICES, AND THE CONDITION OF THE AGRICULTURAL
  INTERESTS PREVIOUS TO 1793
  SECTION  1 Period ending in 1692
  SECTION  2 1693 to 1714
  SECTION  3 1715 to 1765
  SECTION  4 1765 to 1775
  SECTION  5 1775 to 1793
PART Ⅱ ON THE EFFECT OF WAR
  CHAPTER ⅠGENERAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECT
  CHAPTER ⅡEFFECTS OF TAXATION ON THE FLUCTUATION OF GENERAL PRICES98
  CHAPTER ⅢEFFECT OF THE EXTRA DEMAND OR CONSUMPTION SUPPOSED TO ARISE OUT OF A STATE OF WAR IN GENERAL101
  SECTION 1Extra demand or consumption arising
  out of a state of war in general101
  SECTION 2Effect of the extra demand or consumption attributed specially to the last war111
  SECTION 3On the effects of the monopoly of trade enjoyed by this country during the last war115
  SECTION 4Effects of the stimulus or excitement supposed to
  have been occasioned by the government
  expenditure during the last war
  CHAPTER ⅣEFFECTS OF WAR, AS OBSTRUCTING
  SUPPLY, AND INCREASING THE COST OF PRODUCTION
PART Ⅲ ON THE CURRENCY
  CHAPTER ⅠGENERAL VIEW OF THE SUBJECT
  CHAPTER ⅡARGUMENTS OF THOSE WHO ASCRIBE A GREATER EFFECT TO THE
  BANK RESTRICTIONTHAN THAT INDICATED  BY THE DIFFERENCE
  BETWEEN THE MARKET PRICE AND THE MINT PRICE OF GOLD
  SECTION 1On the alleged effect of the bank restriction
  in depreciating the value of the precious metals
  SECTION 2Effect of the bank restriction
  on the economised use of money
  SECTION 3Effect ascribed to the bank restriction of the substitution of credit for currency, and of the
  excessive issues of country paper
  SECTION 4On the alleged constant excess of issue by the
  bank of England, and thence of the whole of the circulating medium162
  SECTION 5On the regulation of the
  bank issues during the restriction
  SECTION 6On the effect of the bank
  restriction in raising the prices of commodities
  SECTION 7On the alleged invariable connection of increase  of price
  with the bank restriction, and on the effect of the near approach of the termination of the restriction producing a fall of prices greatly
  exceeding the difference between paper and gold
PART Ⅳ HISTORICAL SKETCH OF PRICES, AND OF THE STATE
  OF THE CIRCULATION, FROM 1792 TO 1837
  CHAPTER ⅠINTRODUCTION
  CHAPTER ⅡON THE STATE OF PRICES, AND OF THE CIRCULATION,
  FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF 1793 TO THE CLOSE OF 1798
  SECTION 1On the seasons in connection with the prices
  of provisions, from 1793 to the close of 1798
  SECTION 2On the prices of commodities from 1793 to 1798
  SECTION 3Bank circulation, 1793 to 1798
  SECTION 4Summary of the preceding survey
  CHAPTER ⅢON THE STATE OF PRICES, AND OF THE
  CIRCULATION, FROM 1799 TO 1803
  SECTION 1Rise of the prices of provisions and other articles of
  European produce from the spring of 1799 to the spring of 1801224
  SECTION 2Rise of wages from 1799 to 1801
  SECTION 3Statement of the general causes of the rise of the
  prices of commodities and labour from 1799 to 1801
  SECTION 4Great fall of the prices of transatlantic produce
  from the spring of 1799 to the spring of 1801
  SECTION 5Fall of the prices of provisions from the spring of 1801 to the close of 1803251
  SECTION 6On the state of the circulation from 1799 to 1803254
  SECTION 7Summary of the preceding survey267
  CHAPTER ⅣSTATE OF PRICES AND OF THE CIRCULATION FROM THE
  COMMENCEMENT OF 1804 TO THE CLOSE OF 1808269
  SECTION 1Deficiency of the harvest of 1804273
  SECTION 2Seasons of 1805 to 1808, both included
  SECTION 3Instances of some of the most prominent of the variations of the prices of commodities besides those of corn
  SECTION 4New fields of enterprise opened for exports
  SECTION 5General excitement and speculations in shares in 1807 and 1808
  SECTION 6On the state of the circulation from 1804 to 1808
  SECTION 7Advances by the bank to government
  SECTION 8General remarks on the state of prices,
  and of the circulation at the close of 1808
  SECTION 9Summary of the preceding survey
  CHAPTER ⅤSTATE OF PRICES AND OF THE CIRCULATION, FROM 1809 TO 1813
  SECTION 1Prices of agricultural produce, from the commencement of 1809 to the summer of 1811308
  SECTION 2Fall of prices of commodities, and
  commercial distress, from 1809 to 1811
  SECTION 3Revival of credit, and improved
  prospects of trade, in the summer of 1811
  SECTION 4Rise of the prices of agricultural produce, and high range of them, between the harvest of
  1811 and the harvest of 1813
  SECTION 5On wages and salaries as connected
  with the prices of necessaries
  SECTION 6Advance of prices on the continent
  of Europe in 1811 and 1812
  SECTION 7Prices of commodities from the
  summer of 1811 to the summer of 1813
  SECTION 8Fall of the prices of corn, and
  of other European produce, in 1813
  SECTION 9Rise of prices of exportable commodities in 1813
  SECTION 10State of the circulation from 1809 to
  1813, both years included369
  SECTION 11Summary of the preceding survey393