Farley GrubbPrior to the formation of federal government under the Constitution, there existed a system of land???backed mortgages in the colonies that to some extent could be utilized as currency. The colonies lacked a system of exchange due to a paucity of gold and silver so many paper money schemes were enacted to remedy this problem ??? this was one such scheme. Given the importance of, and trouble caused by, mortgage-backed securities in today's economy, the history of similar methods used in the colonial economy to generate tradable money may be informative of the present. This colonial system of currency creation via land-backed mortgages was described and written about by the famous polymath Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia. In my ...
The Massachusetts currency of 1690 was the first inconvertible paper money to be supported solely by...
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-78)In the American Republic. few appellations have be...
Legal historians have long emphasized the role courts played in promoting the development of a marke...
The British North American colonies were the first western economies to rely on colonyspecific legis...
Franklin, Nature, and Authority: Iconography of Pennsylvanian Paper Money, 1723-1751-This article lo...
Paper money has often been controversial and misunderstood. Why it has value, why that value changes...
Colonial American history has Interested many eminent writers who have contributed much valuable mat...
A long-standing but unsettled controversy concerning monetary experiences in colonial America has re...
The efforts of some American colonials, who complained of monetary scarcity and advocated increased ...
In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early ...
In a long-standing controversy over monetary experiences in colonial America, the main substantive i...
In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early ...
The quantity theory of money is applied to the paper money regimes of seven of the nine British Nort...
Colonial American currency has been cited as an example of the failure of the quantity theory. A cas...
1From the turn of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, Britain created a ...
The Massachusetts currency of 1690 was the first inconvertible paper money to be supported solely by...
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-78)In the American Republic. few appellations have be...
Legal historians have long emphasized the role courts played in promoting the development of a marke...
The British North American colonies were the first western economies to rely on colonyspecific legis...
Franklin, Nature, and Authority: Iconography of Pennsylvanian Paper Money, 1723-1751-This article lo...
Paper money has often been controversial and misunderstood. Why it has value, why that value changes...
Colonial American history has Interested many eminent writers who have contributed much valuable mat...
A long-standing but unsettled controversy concerning monetary experiences in colonial America has re...
The efforts of some American colonials, who complained of monetary scarcity and advocated increased ...
In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early ...
In a long-standing controversy over monetary experiences in colonial America, the main substantive i...
In The Currency of Empire, Jonathan Barth explores the intersection of money and power in the early ...
The quantity theory of money is applied to the paper money regimes of seven of the nine British Nort...
Colonial American currency has been cited as an example of the failure of the quantity theory. A cas...
1From the turn of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century, Britain created a ...
The Massachusetts currency of 1690 was the first inconvertible paper money to be supported solely by...
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-78)In the American Republic. few appellations have be...
Legal historians have long emphasized the role courts played in promoting the development of a marke...