The Fear of Excess
Paper money occupied a deeply ambivalent place in works of British monetary writers in the eighteenth century. On the one hand, wrote Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham, paper money’s ability to represent wealth in exchange without itself containing any intrinsic value was an unparalleled benefit to com...
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| Language: | English |
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Università degli Studi di Torino
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas |
| Online Access: | https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/jihi/article/view/6064 |