Elementary Principles of Economics

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Another class of goods, the price of which cannot fluctu- ate greatly with other prices, are those special commodi- ties which consist largely of the money metal. Thus, in a country employing a gold standard, the prices of gold for dentistry, of gold rings and ornaments, gold watches, gold- rimmed spectacles, gilded picture frames, etc., instead of varying in proportion to other prices, always vary in a smaller proportion. The range of variation is the nar- rower, the more predominantly the pri
...ce of the article de- pends upon the gold as one of its raw materials.
From the fact that gold-made articles are thus more or less securely tied in value to the gold standard, it follows also that the prices of substitutes for such articles will tend to vary less than prices in general. These substitute articles will include silver watches, ornaments of silver, and various other forms of jewelry, whether containing gold or not.
A further dispersion of prices is produced by the fact that the special forces of supply and demand are playing on 228 ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS [Chap.


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