The continental dollar : how the American revolution was financed with paper money / Farley Grubb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grubb, Farley Ward, 1954- author.

Series:

Markets and governments in economic history.

Chicago scholarship online.

Markets and governments in economic history

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dollar--History.

Dollar.

Monetary policy--United States.

Monetary policy.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Finance.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Summary:

'The Continental Dollar' provides an illuminating history of America's original credit market.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

A Note on Citation Format

Preface

Introduction

Part I. What Was the Continental Dollar? The Intended Structural Design

Chapter 1. Emitting Continental Dollars

Chapter 2. Richard Smith and New Jersey's Influence

Chapter 3. Denominational Spacing and Value Size

Chapter 4. Informing the Public

Chapter 5. Descriptions by Contemporary Leaders

Chapter 6. Congressional Spending

Chapter 7. Legal Tender

Chapter 8. Loan Office Certificates

Part II. Value and Performance

Chapter 9. Modeling Value

Chapter 10. Rational Bond Pricing

Chapter 11. The Current Market Exchange Value

Chapter 12. Time-Discounting versus Depreciation

Chapter 13. 1779: The Turning Point

Chapter 14. 1780-1781: The Road to Abandonment

Part III. Epilogue

Chapter 15. State Redemption of Continental Dollars

Chapter 16. The 1790 Funding Act and Final Default on the Continental Dollar

Chapter 17. The Constitutional Transformation of the US Monetary System

Acknowledgments

Appendices: Getting the Numbers Right

Appendix A. Reconciling the Disparate Statements in the Secondary Literature Regarding Continental Dollar Emissions

Appendix B. The Denominational Structure of American Paper Monies, 1755-1781

Appendix C. The Cumulative Value of Continental Dollars Emitted, 1775-1780: Face Value versus Present Value

Appendix D. The Redemption of Continental Dollars by Individual States over Time

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Grubb, Farley The Continental Dollar

ISBN:

9780226826042

OCLC:

1380463767