1. "Smith's Law" and "Fisher's Equation of Exchange" -- 2. The Impracticality of a Gold or Silver Standard -- 3. The Undesirability of a Gold or Silver Standard -- 4. Low Growth Rates of Money Supply -- 5. More Rapid Growth Rates of Money Supply -- 6. Money as a Legal and Psychological Matter -- 7. Paper Money Created by Colonial Governments: Background and the Pennsylvania Experience -- 8. Paper Money Created by Colonial Governments: Other Examples and Summation -- 9. Paper Money Created by Private Banks in Eighteenth-Century Britain -- 10. Adam Smith on the Bank of England and Banking in General -- 11. Financing the War for Independence of the United States -- 12. The 1780s in the United States -- 13. The Constitution and Paper Money in the Early Decades of the United States
14. Money and Banking in Britain, 1792-1821 -- 15. Money and Banking in Britain in the Later Nineteenth Century -- 16. The Bank of the United States and Other Matters, 1800-1836 -- 17. The Discovery of Gold in California and Other Matters, 1836-1860 -- 18. Union Financing of the Civil War, 1861-1863 -- 19. Union Financing of the Civil War, 1864-1866 -- 20. From War's End to the Resumption of Gold Payments, 1865-1879 -- 21. Bimetallism and Populism, 1879-1896 -- 22. Gold Discoveries and Other Matters, 1896-1914 -- 23. The Period 1864-1914 Considered as a Whole
Analysis
Banking History
United States
Banking History
United States
Notes
Bibliography: p183-187. - Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-187) and index