| 词条 | Rice Vaughan |
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Rice Vaughan (d. circa 1672)[1] was a seventeenth-century Anglo-Welsh lawyer and economist known for writing a seminal work on economics and currencies entitled A Discourse on Coins and Coinage. BiographyRice Vaughan was the "second son of Henry Vaughan of Gelli-goch, Machynlleth, and Mary, daughter of Maurice Wynn of Glyn, near Harlech."[1] He graduated from the Shrewsbury School in 1615 and later in life entered Gray's Inn for a career in the law before being admitted to the bar in 1648.[1] During the English Civil War, he sided with parliament against King Charles I. He is thought to have died before the publication of his works, the earliest in 1672. Works
A Discourse of Coin and CoinageVaughan wrote an early work on currency, A Discourse of Coin and Coinage[2] (1675). He argued that it was a mass voluntary consensus, the "concurrence of mankind", that gave currency its value as a medium of exchange, not the laws which enforce the usage of currency or the inherent worth of a currency's material composition (such as gold or silver).[2] This work also contained the earliest known research on price level changes and price indices. John Ramsay McCulloch included A Discourse... in his A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on Money[3] (1856). References1. ^1 2 Jones, J. Gwynfor. "Vaughan, Rice (d. c.1672)" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004; online edition: Sept 2010). Retrieved 21 January 2013. 2. ^1 {{cite web |url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A64755.0001.001?c=eebo;c=eebo2;g=eebogroup;rgn=section+and+work+titles;view=toc;xc=1;q1=A+Discourse+of+Coin+and+Coinage |title=A Discourse of Coin and Coinage }} 3. ^{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924030196004/page/n4 |title=John Ramsay McCulloch, A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts on Money [1856] |publisher=Cornell University Library |accessdate=}} External links
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