The National Gold Banks

G. D. Hancock

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1908, vol. 22, issue 4, 602-625

Abstract: I. The national banks on a greenback basis from 1863 to 1879, 602.—Attitude of different sections of the United States towards banking and currency in 1870, 603.—Pacific States continued on a gold basis, 604.—II. The Gold Bank Act of 1870 authorizing gold notes, 608.—Intended for foreign traders in East and to introduce national banking system into Pacific States, 609.—III. The gold banks in California, 612.—Promised success, 1872 to 1875, 613.—Panic of 1875 discredited the gold notes, 615.—Decline of the gold banks, 617.— IV. Further causes of the failure of the system, 619.—Analysis of the law and of banking under it, 620.

Date: 1908
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.2307/1884918 (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:qjecon:v:22:y:1908:i:4:p:602-625.

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://academic.oup.com/journals

Access Statistics for this article

The Quarterly Journal of Economics is currently edited by Robert J. Barro, Lawrence F. Katz, Nathan Nunn, Andrei Shleifer and Stefanie Stantcheva

More articles in The Quarterly Journal of Economics from President and Fellows of Harvard College
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Oxford University Press ().