Creating Maryland's paper money economy, 1720-1739
Subtitle: the role of power, print, and markets
By: Farley Grubb.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13974; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13974.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The British North American colonies were the first western economies to rely on legislature-issued fiat paper money as their principal internal medium of exchange.  This system arose piecemeal across the colonies making the paper money creation story for each colony unique.  It was true monetary experimentation on a grand scale.  The creation story for Maryland, perhaps the most unique among the colonies, is analyzed to evaluate how market forces, media influences, and the power of various constituents combined to shape its particular paper money system"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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