Sovereign of the market
Subtitle: the money question in early America
By: Jeffrey Sklansky
Series: American beginnings, 1500-1900; American beginnings, 1500-1900
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780226480336
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Money; Currency question; Banks and banking
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-303) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the elusive sovereign; title: Part I. Paper money and the problem of circulation in the colonial era. John Wise and the natural law of commerce; title: William Douglass and the natural history of credit; title: Part II. Commercial banking and the problem of representation in the Jacksonian era. William Leggett and the melodrama of the market; title: Nicholas Biddle and the beauty of banking; title: Part III. Big business and the problem of association in the Gilded Age and progressive era. Charles Macune and the currency of cooperation; title: Charles Conant and the fund of trust; title: Conclusion : the magician's glass.