A nation of counterfeiters
capitalists, con men, and the making of the United States
- ISBN: 9780674032446
- Editorial: Harvard University Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2009
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge (Mass). Estados Unidos de Norteamérica
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 457
- Idiomas: Inglés
Papel: Rústica
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Few of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a recent phenomenon: prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Instead, countless banks issued paper money in a bewildering variety of denominations and designs - more than ten thousand different kinds by 1860. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation.
