Note 15 — Chapter I

T. S. Adams, "Index Numbers and the Standard of Value," Jour. of Pol. Econ., vol. x, 1901-02, pp. 11 and 18-19; Kinley, "Money", p. 62; W. G. L. Taylor, "Values, Relative and Positive," Annals of the Amer. Acad., vol. ix; Merriam, L. S., "The Theory of Final Utility in its Relation to Money and the Standard of Deferred Payments," Annals of the American Acad., vol. iii. and "Money as a Measure of Value," Ibid., vol. iv; Scott, W. A., "Money and Banking", 1903 ed., ch. III. Professor Scott, in a letter to the writer, expresses the opinion that a value concept which makes the value of a good a quantity, socially valid, regardless of the particular holder of the coin or commodity in question, and regardless of the particular exchange ratio into which the value quantity enters as a term, "is absolutely essential to the working out of economic problems." Johnson, A. S., "Davenport's Economics and the Present Problems of Theory," Quarterly Journal of Economics, May, 1914, and American Econ. Rev., June, 1912, p. 320.