The Distribution of Congressional Spending During the American Revolution, 1775-1780: The Problem of Geographic Balance / Farley Grubb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grubb, Farley.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w14267.

NBER working paper series no. w14267

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

The Distribution of Congressional Spending During the American Revolution, 1775-1780

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2008.

Summary:

Resources to fight the War for Independence from Great Britain (1775-1783) were to be provided to the U.S. Congress by the individual states based on each state's population share in the united colonies. Congressional spending, however, largely flowed to where the theater of war was located. Thus a geographic imbalance in revenue and spending arose. Because much of the spending was through issuing paper money, geographic variation in inflation as well as in general economic activity resulted. This in turn affected the relative strength of each state's attachment to the union with ramifications on maintaining political unity.

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Print version record

August 2008.