The History of Gold and Silver

Lawrence H White is at the University of Georgia, USA. He is editor of The Theory of Monetary Institutions (2000)

Volume 1 Nicholas Oresme, De Moneta (Of Currency) (c. 1355) translated by Charles Johnson (1956); Bernardo Davanzati, A Discourse Upon Coins (1588) translated by John Toland (1696); Gerard Malynes, Consuetudo, vel, Lex Mercatoria; or, The Ancient Law-Merchant (1656); W Fleetwood, A Sermon against Clipping (1694); John Locke, Some Considerations of the Consequences of Lowering the Interest, and Raising the Value of Money (1696), two excerpts; Richard Temple, Some Short Remarks upon Mr. Locke's Book (1696); Charles Jenkinson (Lord Liverpool), A Treatise on the Coins of the Realm (1805); Nassau Senior, Transmission of the Precious Metals from Country to Country (1828) Volume 2 James Mill, Elements of Political Economy, 3rd edition (1844); Nassau Senior, Three Lectures on the Value of Money (1840); John Stuart Mill, Principles of Political Economy, 5th edition (1893); Michel Chevalier, Remarks on the Production of the Precious Metals and on the Depreciation of Gold, translated by D Forbes Campbell (1853); John Cairnes, The Course of Depreciation (1858); John Cairnes, International Results (1860); William Stanley Jevons, A Serious Fall in the Value of Gold Ascertained, and its Social Effects Set Forth (1863); Walter Bagehot, The Effect of the Gold Discoveries, More Especially Upon Men of Business (1863); Walter Bagehot, The Depreciation of Gold Since 1848 (1872-3) Volume 3 William Stanley Jevons, On the International Monetary Convention and the Introduction of an International Currency into this Kingdom (1868); Robert Giffen, The General Case Against Bimetallism (1879); Robert Giffen, On Some Bimetallic Fallacies (1886); Henry Dunning MacLeod, Bimetallism (1894); William Hope Harvey and J Laurence Laughlin, The Harvey-Laughlin Debate (1895); Francis A Walker, International Bimetallism (1896); J Laurence Laughlin, The History of Bimetallism in the United States, 4th edn. (1897); Bonamy Price, The Principles of Currency, 'The Money Market and Gold' (1869); Edward Atkinson, The Banking Principle (1895)