The London School of Economics and Political Science

(University of London)

Houghton Street, Aldwych, London, W.C.2

No. 3

In Series of Reprints

of Scarce Tracts in Economic and Political Science

TRANSMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS METALS FROM COUNTRY

TO COUNTRY

ETC.

by NASSAU W. Senior, a.m.

ON THE

TRANSMISSION OF THE PRECIOUS METALS
FROM COUNTRY TO COUNTRY

AND THE

MERCANTILE THEORY OF WEALTH,

DELIVERED

BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, IN JUNE, 1827.

BY

NASSAU WILLIAM SENIOR,

LATE FELLOW OF MAGDALEN COLLEGE, A.M., PROFESSOR OF
POLITICAL ECONOMY.

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He shewed me a very excellent argument to prove that our importing less
than we export do not impoverish the kingdom, which, though it be a paradox,
and that I do not remember the argument, yet methought there was a great deal
in what he said."- Pepys's Memoirs, vol. i. p.
284.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

MDCCCXXVIII.