The paper aims at studying why and how, in a very short time – from Circulating Annuities (1800) to Paper Mischief (1800-1801) and The True Alarm ([Sur les prix], 1801) – Jeremy Bentham radically changed his way of formulating the problem of money and his conception of what should be done to...

<title>Abstract</title>In 1887 Marshall proposed a convertibility scheme which extended Ricardo's Ingot plan to bimetallism. Such an extension seems surprising, since Ricardo always firmly opposed bimetallism on the grounds of its instability. The question thus arises of whether the Ingot plan, conceived by...

<title>Abstract</title> This article transcripts and comments a hitherto unpublished letter by David Ricardo, dated 19 January 1823 and addressed to Grenfell. In this letter Ricardo opposes the adoption of a double standard of money, two years after the return to convertibility of banknotes and in the midst of...