Colonial Monetary Standards Contrasted: Evidence from the Seven Years' War
- 3 March 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 45 (4) , 869-884
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700035142
Abstract
The Seven Years' War warrants a reinterpretation of the colonial paper-money experiment. Pennsylvania, New York, and South Carolina with fiduciary standards issued large quantities of paper money to finance the war accompanied by only moderate increases in the rate of inflation. Massachusetts with its pure specie standard financed the war with interest-bearing debt and fared little better, if not a little worse. Success of war finance in Pennsylvania, New York, and South Carolina can be attributed to paper-money issues that financed government expenditures and were matched by imposition of tax labilities for early redemption.Keywords
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