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The E-Sylum: Volume 26, Number 13, March 26, 2023, Article 4

NEW BOOK: SOVEREIGN OF THE MARKET

On a similar topic is this 2017 book we hadn't discussed before (so it's new to us - or me, anyway). Author Jeffrey Sklansky examines the "money question" in early America. -Editor

Sovereign of the Market book cover Sovereign of the Market
The Money Question in Early America

Jeffrey Sklansky

What should serve as money, who should control its creation and circulation, and according to what rules? For more than two hundred years, the money question shaped American social thought, becoming a central subject of political debate and class conflict. Sovereign of the Market reveals how and why this happened.

Jeffrey Sklansky's wide-ranging study comprises three chronological parts devoted to major episodes in the career of the money question. First, the fight over the innovation of paper money in colonial New England. Second, the battle over the development of commercial banking in the new United States. And third, the struggle over the national banking system and the international gold standard in the late nineteenth century. Each section explores a broader problem of power that framed each conflict in successive phases of capitalist development: circulation, representation, and association. The three parts also encompass intellectual biographies of opposing reformers for each period, shedding new light on the connections between economic thought and other aspects of early American culture. The result is a fascinating, insightful, and deeply considered contribution to the history of capitalism.

336 pages
12 halftones
6 x 9
CLOTH
$48.00
ISBN: 9780226480336
Published November 2017

QUICK QUIZ: Can anyone identify the image on the book's cover? -Editor

For more information, or to order, see:
Sovereign of the Market The Money Question in Early America (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo26773932.html)

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