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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Backing, the Quantity Theory, and the Transition to the US Dollar, 1723-1850

  • Peter L. Rousseau
American Economic Review
vol. 97, no. 2, May 2007
(pp. 266–270)
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Citation

Rousseau, Peter, L. 2007. "Backing, the Quantity Theory, and the Transition to the US Dollar, 1723-1850." American Economic Review, 97 (2): 266–270. DOI: 10.1257/aer.97.2.266

JEL Classification

  • E31 Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
  • E42 Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems
  • E51 Money Supply; Credit; Money Multipliers
  • N11 Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913