[Footnote 1: The old-fashioned miser, however, withdraws his hoarded gold for the time from its usual monetary function as an indirect agent and treats it as a direct good yielding to him psychic income by its mere possession.]
[Footnote 2: See on kinds of income, Vol. I, p. 26 ff.]
[Footnote 3: See secs. 1 and 2 of this chapter; also Vol. 1, especially pp. 31-38 and 353-355.]
[Footnote 4: This means actually gratuitous, for any real difficulty in getting metal to or from the mint operates as a cost in the conversion of bullion into money, or vice versa; e.g., the gold may be in Australia and the mint in London.]
[Footnote 5: See Vol. I, pp. 138 ff. and 361 ff.
FIG. 1. GOLD PRODUCTION OF THE WORLD, 1493-1914.
The changes in gold production here shown have bearings not only upon problems of money, but in some respects upon nearly every modern economic problem. Compare in the present connection this figure with Figure 3, in Chapter 6, Section 4, showing changes in index numbers of prices.
[Illustration: FIG. 1. GOLD PRODUCTION OF THE WORLD. 1493-1710. AVERAGES FOR PERIODS BEFORE 1870]]
[Footnote 6: This formula is presented by E.W. Kemmerer in “Money and Prices” (2d ed., 1909), p. 15 ff.]
[Footnote 7: See above, ch. 3, sec. 6, table.]
[Footnote 8:
PER CAPITA CIRCULATION OF MONEY (ESTIMATED)
IN THE UNITED
STATES IN VARIOUS YEARS.
1800......$4.99 1850......$12.02 1890......$22.82 1810...... 7.60 1860...... 13.85 1900...... 26.93 1820...... 6.96 1870...... 17.51 1910...... 34.33 1830...... 6.78 1880...... 19.41 1915...... 35.44 1840......10.91 ]
[Footnote 9: On the function of deposits, see below, ch. 7, sec. 11.]
[Footnote 10: Consult Figure 1 in ch. 4 and Figure 2 in ch. 6 for the graphic presentation of these and related facts.]