The Foundations of the American Economy Vol 3: The American Colonies from Inception to Independence

Edited by Marianne Johnson, Steven G. Medema, Warren J. Samuels

VOLUME III Colonial Money, Credit and Debt: John Woodbridge, Severals relating to the Fund Printed for divers Reasons, as may appear (1628) John Blackwell, A Model for Erecting a Bnak of Credit: with a Discourse in Explanation thereof (1688) Paul Dudley, Objections to the Bank of Credit Lately Projected at Boston (1714) A Letter from one in Boston to his Friend in the Country (1714) A vindication of the Bank of Credit (1714), Cotton Mather, Some considerations on the Bills of Credit, now passing in New England ( 1691) John Wise, A word of comfort to a melancholy countryn (1721) Benjamin Franklin, A modest enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper-Currenct (1729) Hugh Vand, Am inquiry into the Nature and uses of Money (1740)

This collection brings together a comprehensive selection of documents from the history of US and Canadian economic thought from the seventeenth century through to 1900