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25 Jany 1801
Paper Mischief

( ) Rise of prices is an expression abbreviated:
and which may require considerable
development to render the import of it,
exemplification

When I say – the prices have risen
how in 1800 – so as to be double what they were
in 1750 – or in other words the value of money
is but half as great now as it was
then – the following are the particular propositions included
in that one wide spreading and general

Prices were in this country (meaning
Great Britain) in 1800 double what they were in
1760. In saying this this extremely general proposition
the following subordinate and less general propositions are
virtually included.

1st That supposing the total aggregate mass of vendible articles
sold in 1800 in the whole island in 1800 to have been exactly equal (in
quality as well as quantity) to the total mass of vendible
articles sold in 1760 the sum total of
the sums of money employed in the several purchases
made in 1800⊞ ⊞ after certain exceptions deductions was exactly double the sum
total of the sums of money employ'd on the
several purchases made in 1760: and that accordingly
2. That supposing the total mass of vendible articles if in 1760 the amount of that sum total was 100 millions,
sold in 1800 on the whole island in 1800, to in 1800 it was 200 millions.
have been different, say greater, say greater in the
proportion of 2 to 1 than in 1760

Identifier: | JB/003/107/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 3.
Date_1	1800-01-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	1, 4
Box	003	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	107	Info in main headings field	paper mischief
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1798 a<…>
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1798
Notes public		ID Number	1517
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