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Joshua Greenberg on Antebellum Paper Money

George Selgin/March 31, 2021April 3, 2021 /7 Comments

Alerted by a tweet by him, I recently listened to a December 2020 C-SPAN talk, on "Paper Money in Antebellum America," by historian Joshua Greenberg, the author of Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. I haven't yet read his book….

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