The Continental Dollar: How Much Was Really Issued? / Farley Grubb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grubb, Farley.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w13047.

NBER working paper series no. w13047

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

The Continental Dollar

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2007.

Summary:

The U.S. Congress issued paper money called Continental Dollars to finance the American Revolution. The story of the Continental Dollar is familiar to all -- a lot were issued and hyper-inflation ensued. However, the details of this story are less well known. Scholars even disagree over how much was issued -- disagree by over 50 percent. Meaningful monetary analysis of the Continental Dollar cannot proceed given this confusion in the data. Evidence is gathered here to reconcile past estimates and establish the exact amount and time path of Continental Dollars emitted thereby overcoming the entropy that has crept into the historical record.

Notes:

Print version record

April 2007.