Writings on Money, Banking & Public Debt: Excerpts from the Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers

by Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson's experience with excessive paper money issues encompassed three periods: the colonial period, the Revolutionary War, and the state-bank emissions 1811-1816, resulting in widely fluctuating prices, and disruptions of debtor-creditor relationships demanding a banking systems to promote economic stability to which he answered in his letters and proposals. Jefferson's money and banking proposals were similar to those of David Hume more than...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1456547674
• ISBN13: 9781456547677
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.0" x 10.0"