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• The Means to Prosperity (1933), by John Maynard Keynes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Chapters of Erie, and Other Essays (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Company, 1871), by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams, and Francis Amasa Walker (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market, by Walter Bagehot
  • HTML at McMaster
  • Gutenberg text
• Speeches on Questions of Public Policy (third edition; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908), by Richard Cobden (HTML at econlib.org)

• An Essay Upon Projects, by Daniel Defoe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Finance and Trade Under Edward III, ed. by George Unwin (HTML at British History Online)

• Liberalism and the Social Problem (second edition; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909), by Winston Churchill (Gutenberg text)

• Medieval Merchants and Money: Essays in Honour of James L. Bolton (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2016), ed. by Martin Allen and Matthew P. Davies (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Calendar of Treasury Papers (6 volumes covering 1556-1728, published 1868-1889), by Great Britain Public Record Office, ed. by Joseph Redington (full serial archives)

• Calendar of Treasury Books (32 volumes covering 1660-1718, published 1904-1962), by Great Britain Public Record Office, ed. by William Arthur Shaw and F. H. Slingsby (full serial archives)
• Calendar of Treasury Books and Papers (5 volumes covering 1729-1745, published 1897-1903), by Great Britain Public Record Office, ed. by William Arthur Shaw (full serial archives)

• Stakeholder Health Insurance (c2000), by David G. Green, contrib. by Timothy D. Baker, Nicholas Beazley, and Adrian Bull (PDF at Civitas)

• A Letter to James William Gilbart, General Manager of the London and Westminister Bank, on the Regulation of the Currency by the Foreign Exchanges, and on the Appointment of the Bank of England to be the Sole Bank of Issue Throughout Great Britain (London: P. Richardson, 1840), by Robert Bell
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• Report From the Select Committee on the Bank Acts; Together With the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index (House of Commons committee chaired by Cardwell; 1858), by Great Britain Parliament Select Committee on Bank Acts, contrib. by Edward Cardwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Everybody's Guide to Money Matters (1898), by William Cotton (Gutenberg text)
• An Inquiry Into the Currency Principle, by Thomas Tooke (HTML at McMaster)
• Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market, by Walter Bagehot
  • HTML at McMaster
  • Gutenberg text
• Trade Fallacies: A Criticism of Existing Methods, and Suggestions for a Reform Towards National Prosperity (London: P.S. King and Son, 1917), by Arthur Kitson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Letter on the Price of the Funds, As Connected with the Bank Restriction Act (London: J.M. Richardson, 1818) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Brief Account of the Intended Bank of England (anonymous, but sometimes attributed to Paterson; London: R. Taylor, 1694), contrib. by William Paterson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Samuel Montagu, First Baron Swaythling, Born December 21st, 1832, Died January 12th, 1911: A Character Sketch (London: Truslove and Hanson, ca. 1913), by Lilian Helen Montagu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Samuel Montagu, First Baron Swaythling, Born December 21st, 1832, Died January 12th, 1911: A Character Sketch (London: Truslove and Hanson, ca. 1913), by Lilian Helen Montagu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A History of Banking in Bristol from 1750 to 1899, by Charles Henry Cave (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market, by Walter Bagehot
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  • Gutenberg text

• The Rise of the London Money Market, 1640-1826, by W. R. Bisschop (PDF at McMaster)

• Money and Trade Considered, With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money, by John Law (text at MacMaster)
• Money and Trade Considered, With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation With Money (Glasgow: R. and A. Foulis, 1750), by John Law
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• The Politics of Defence Budgeting: A Study of Organisation and Resource Allocation in the United Kingdom and the United States (Washington: National Defense University Press, 1983), by Michael D. Hobkirk (PDF at dtic.mil)

• The Early English Customs System: A Documentary Study of the Institutional and Economic History of the Customs From the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century (Harvard Economic Studies v18; Cambridge: Harvard University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1918), by Norman Scott Brien Gras (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Overseas Trade of London: Exchequer Customs Accounts, 1480-1, ed. by Henry S. Cobb (HTML at British History Online)

• Liberalism and the Social Problem (second edition; London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1909), by Winston Churchill (Gutenberg text)
• The World, Its Debts and the Rich Men: A Speech (1922), by H. G. Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Essay on Tea, Considered as Pernicious to Health, Obstructing Industry, and Impoverishing the Nation; With a Short Account of its Growth, and Great Consumption in These Kingdoms, With Several Political Reflections (Excerpted from author's Journal of Eight Days Journey from Portsmouth to Kingston upon Thames; 1756), by Jonas Hanway (page images at HathiTrust)

• The World, Its Debts and the Rich Men: A Speech (1922), by H. G. Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Inhabitants of London in 1638, ed. by Thomas Cyril Dale (HTML at British History Online)

• A Discourse of Foreign War; With an Account of All the Taxations Upon This Kingdom, From the Conquest to the End of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth; Also a List of the Confederates from Henry I to the End of the Reign of the Said Queen, Shewing Which Have Prov'd the Most Beneficial to England (London: Printed for H. Mortlock, 1690), by Robert Cotton (multiple formats at Google)
• A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions, by William Petty (text at McMaster)

• Departmental Committee on Taxation and Regulation of Road Vehicles in Great Britain and Ireland: Interim Report (London: HMSO, 1920), by Great Britain Ministry of Transport (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Struggles of a Book Against Excessive Taxation (London, ca. 1850), by Charles Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Intolerable Inquisition? Reflections on the Law of Tax (Hamlyn Lectures, #33; London: Stevens and Sons, 1981), by Hubert Holmes Monroe (PDF in the UK)

• Higher Production by a Bonus on National Output: A Proposal For a Minimum Income for All, Varying With National Productivity (London: G. Allen and Unwin, c1920), by Dennis Milner
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Everybody's Guide to Money Matters (1898), by William Cotton (Gutenberg text)
• Guide to the Unprotected in Every-Day Matters Relating to Property and Income (2nd edition, 1864), by A Banker's Daughter (HTML at Indiana)

• An Essay on Money & Bullion, by T. Joplin (text at McMaster)
• An Essay on Money and Bullion (London: Printed for B. Lintot, 1718), by J. Jocelyn (PDF at McMaster)
• A Letter on the Price of the Funds, As Connected with the Bank Restriction Act (London: J.M. Richardson, 1818) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Money Answers All Things, by Jacob Vanderlint (text at McMaster)

• The Careless State: Wealth and Welfare in Britain Today (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2010), by Paul Graham Taylor (HTML at bloomsburyacademic.com; registration optional)

• A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions, by William Petty (text at McMaster)

• The Conduct of the War by Sea (2 speeches, and a Foreign Office note; London: Darling and Son, 1915), by Winston Churchill, Great Britain Foreign Office, and H. H. Asquith (multiple formats at archive.org)

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