Danger to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street? The Bank Restriction Act and the regime shift to paper money, 1797–1821

PK O'brien, N Palma - European Review of Economic History, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Bank Restriction Act of 1797 was the unconventional monetary policy of its
time. It suspended the convertibility of the Bank of England's notes into gold, a policy that …

Positively valued fiat money after the sovereign disappears: The case of Somalia

WJ Luther, LH White - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
The case of the Somali shilling defies the historical view that sovereign powers (ie, legal
tender status, public receivability) are necessary to explain the acceptance of fiat money at a …

The Bullionist controversy: Theory and new evidence

JR Hendrickson - Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Bullionist Controversy in the United Kingdom is one of the first debates about
the determination of the price level and the exchange rate under a paper money standard …

British Public Debt Management Operations in the Early Nineteenth Century

NB Kahia - Research in the History of Economic Thought and …, 2020 - emerald.com
By the beginning of the nineteenth century, British public debt, accumulated over the
eighteenth century and during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793–1815), had …