Creating Maryland's Paper Money Economy, 1720-1739: The Role of Power, Print, and Markets

Farley Grubb

No 13974, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: The British North American colonies were the first western economies to rely on legislature-issued fiat paper money as their principal internal medium of exchange. This system arose piecemeal across the colonies making the paper money creation story for each colony unique. It was true monetary experimentation on a grand scale. The creation story for Maryland, perhaps the most unique among the colonies, is analyzed to evaluate how market forces, media influences, and the power of various constituents combined to shape its particular paper money system.

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Date: 2008-05
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Published as Farley Grubb, “Creating Maryland’s Paper Money Economy, 1720-1740: The Confluence of Political Constituencies, Economic Forces, Transatlantic Markets, and Law,” Journal of Early American History, 9, no. 1, (2019), pp. 34-58.

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