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Before the budget: Parliamentary appropriations and the limits of government spending in colonial New South Wales, 1787–1832

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract How did a British colony, not supplied with coin and with no tax base, establish itself a world away from London? Drawing on the Historical Records of Australia and British parliamentary Appropriation Acts from 1787 to 1832, this paper shows that Phillip, the first Governor of New South Wales, spent by issuing promises to pay against the ...
Matthew Crocker
wiley   +1 more source

Money and federal autocracy: 1913 and the quiet inversion of the American constitutional order

Economic Affairs, EarlyView.
Abstract The American Revolution affirmed that sovereignty inheres by nature in each Citizen, and collectively in the People. The Constitution completed a structure in which authority flowed from Citizens to their several State republics, and from the States to a Union holding only delegated powers. 1913 inverted that order.
James Turk
wiley   +1 more source

A labelled image dataset of genuine and counterfeit Ugandan banknotes

Data in Brief
This data article describes a labelled image dataset of genuine and counterfeit Ugandan banknotes prepared for research on visual currency authentication and machine-learning-based counterfeit detection.
Denish Azamuke, Calvin Bamwesigye Kiiza, Marriette Katarahweire, Engineer Bainomugisha   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building a Potemkin village in occupied China: Japan's wartime system of linked trade, 1939–43

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract The paper discusses the novel but little‐known exchange rate system of Japanese‐occupied North China during the Second Sino‐Japanese War, in which exporters were given the right to import in the form of a piece of yellow paper, which could be sold in the secondary market.
Shinji Takagi
wiley   +1 more source

A series of (un)fortunate events: Commercial bank interest rates and deposit reallocation during the Great Depression in the Netherlands

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract During the global economic crisis of 1929–33, deposits in the Dutch commercial banking sector sharply declined as funds shifted to the government‐guaranteed Post Office Savings Bank and other savings institutions. Unlike earlier studies for neighbouring countries, we demonstrate that this shift was driven less by a flight to safety and more by
Ruben Peeters, Amaury de Vicq de Cumptich   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The many prices of war and occupation: Black markets and the cost‐of‐living index in France, 1938–1949

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract When studying French prices between 1938 and 1949, economists and historians face a paradox: whilst a vast black market shaped daily life, official indices recorded only state‐controlled prices. This article addresses the issue by introducing a new consumer price index that incorporates both official and black market prices.
Patrice Baubeau, Matéo Teixeira
wiley   +1 more source

Private money and money market integration: The role of payments infrastructure in nineteenth‐century Switzerland

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Using newly collected discount rate data for six Swiss cities from 1846 to 1893, we find no evidence of increasing integration during a 30‐year period of lightly regulated free banking. We attribute this to two structural issues: banks had incentives to ward off competitors by protecting their local monopolies or forming cartels, and there was
Daniel Kaufmann, Rebecca Stuart
wiley   +1 more source

Banknotes as a Potential Source of Transmissible Diseases in the Al-Anbar Governorate, Iraq

The Iraqi Journal of Medical Sciences
Background:    Banknotes are handled by individuals with varying health and hygiene practices and are stored under diverse environmental and personal conditions.
Thaer A. Hasan
doaj   +3 more sources

From MoneyArt to forgery. Banknote as metaphor of Economy Rethinking

piano b, 2016
If Twenty Century Art can be considered as a sort of “logic meanings overturn”, how could Art be the alternative to the nowadays dominant value, that is Money?
Silvano Manganaro
doaj   +1 more source

How and Why EU Institutions Promote the Digital Euro: The Politics of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The future of money is a crucial issue in the digital age, and the emergence of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) is widely recognised as a transformative development. However, despite its significant implications for monetary sovereignty, regulatory governance and strategic autonomy, we know relatively little about the political ...
Sebastian Heidebrecht
wiley   +1 more source