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  • Bimetallism as a policy for the British Empire 

    Murphy, Joseph John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1882)
    In this paper I take as proved the Bullionist theory; that is to say, the doctrine that the circulating medium ought to possess intrinsic value. All who admit this admit further that the circulating medium ?or rather the ...
  • The case for bimetallism 

    Murphy, Joseph John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1891)
    The question which this essay is an attempt to answer, may be thus expressed :?What would be the effect on prices, and on the financial and industrial interests of the world in general, if the leading nations of the ...
  • The debt and taxation of Ireland 

    Murphy, Joseph John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1864)
    My attention has been directed to the "Report of the Special Committee of the Municipal Council of Dublin on the state of the Public Accounts between Ireland and Great Britain," and I design to lay before you the results ...
  • On the laws relating to joint-stock companies 

    Murphy, Joseph John (Dublin Statistical Society, 1857)
    The limited liability act of 1856 has placed the law of joint-stock companies in a satisfactory state, so far as regards the position of the shareholders. They can obtain a charter of incorporation by simply ^plying for ...
  • On the principles of a note circulation 

    Murphy, Joseph John (Dublin Statistical Society, 1857)
    It may be regarded as established beyond controversy, that the convertibility of bank notes must be preserved. But the conditions under which convertible notes ought to be issued are still open to discussion. Dr Hancock ...
  • On the tenures and taxation of India 

    Murphy, Joseph John (Dublin Statistical Society, 1858)
    The government, in the greater part of India, being the sole landowner, and almost sole capitalist, is under the obligation of attending to many things which in Europe may be safely left to private enterprise. Public ...
  • The private and local business of parliament 

    Murphy, Joseph John (Dublin Statistical Society, 1856)
    I will not attempt any detailed exposure of the vices of the system ; the rather as this has been admirably done by a writer in the Edinburgh Review for January, 1855, in an article entitled "Private Bill Legislation" ...
  • The relation of the state to the railways 

    Murphy, Joseph John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1867)
    A notion, however, appears still to exist, that State intervention for the purpose of making railways more useful would be "a relaxation of the strict principles of political economy, to be justified, if at all, only ...
  • A suggestion for the fusion of the two branches of the legal professions 

    Murphy, Joseph John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1892)
    It scarcely needs proof that the distinction between the two branches of the legal profession?between barrister and solicitor?is purely artificial, and incapable of justification on principles of ordinary common sense. ...
  • A suggestion on coinage 

    Murphy, Joseph John (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1889)
    The work of the British Mint is done gratuitously; the expense of coining gold into sovereigns is borne, not by the merchant or banker, or other person who sends the gold to the mint, but by the payers of taxes. It is ...