Essays on Money and Financial Institutions in the History of Economic Thought, USA History, and Theory

I study the institution of money. I provide a history of the real bills doctrine in its variousforms through debates with the quantity theory of money. I provide a brief history offinancial regulation in the USA. I use a monetary history of the USA to motivate a searchand matching model of transition from commodity money to fiat. I provide a theoreticalunderpinning to the fact that monetary history is a history of commodity money. I extendmy model to consider convertible money, oligarchy, two currencies, money and credit, andAztec money