The Inventions and Diffusion of Hyperinflatable Currency

Dror Goldberg ()

No 2009-6, Working Papers from Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Paper money, when discretionally issued by a government, can be a very powerful political and economic tool. Who invented it and who caused its global diffusion? Scholars are quick to claim the precedence of their home countries without justifying their claims or contesting competing claims. I comprehensively examine the monetary and public nature of the candidate moneys and the transmission of information about paper money inventions between countries and across time. I conclude that it was invented independently a few times and its global diffusion began in Canada in 1685.

Keywords: government-issued money; card money; paper money (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E42 N11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-04
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