The Free Banking Era


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The author argues that free-banking laws enacted before the Civil War generated substantial benefits in the form of a more efficient allocation of capital.




Founding Choices


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Papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Dartmouth College on May 8-9, 2009.







State Banking in Early America


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Examines the different state banking systems in the U.S. from 1790 through 1860.




US Credit and Payments, 1800–1935, Part I Vol 1


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The volumes in this collection are organized thematically and examine the history of key financial institutions before and after the establishment of the Federal Reserve.




Financial History of the United States


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An examination of how political issues influence public finance.




The Theory of Free Banking


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History of Paper Money and Banking


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""As soon as Independence had been won from Great Britain, the decks were clear for a second fight. That fight, as is usually found after a successful revolution, was the fight to decide whether independence was to be true independence or whether, after the change of names, the financial system was to re-establish over the new government that same control which it had exercised over the old."" This is the story of the first 40 years of that war. A shorth history of paper money and banking in the U.S. An inquiry into the principles of the American banking system Letter to Andrew Jackson An inquiry into the expediency of dispensing with bank agency and bank paper in fiscal concerns of the U.S. Journal of Banking Banking as it ought to be Banks of the United States William M. Gouge and the formation of orthodox American monetary policy