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American Economic Review

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Creating the U.S. Dollar Currency Union, 1748-1811: A Quest for Monetary Stability or a Usurpation of State Sovereignty for Personal Gain?

  • Farley Grubb
American Economic Review
vol. 93, no. 5, December 2003
(pp. 1778–1798)
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Citation

Grubb, Farley. 2003. "Creating the U.S. Dollar Currency Union, 1748-1811: A Quest for Monetary Stability or a Usurpation of State Sovereignty for Personal Gain?" American Economic Review, 93 (5): 1778–1798. DOI: 10.1257/000282803322655545

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JEL Classification

  • E42 Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems
  • F36 Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
  • N11 Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913