The Land-Bank System in the American Colonies
- 1 January 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 13 (2) , 145-159
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700070339
Abstract
One need not be very conversant with modern money, credit, and banking to find in them a kinship with the land banks of the Colonial era. In a manner suggestive of our Federal Reserve System, the Colonial land banks exerted a wide influence over the economic life of the times. Indeed, the functions of the land-bank system embraced every phase of the Colonial economy. Its history to a large degree comprises the history of currency, money values, inflation, credit, public finance, and economic development in eighteenth-century America.Keywords
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