An illuminating history of America’s original credit market.The Continental Dollar is a revelatory history of how the fledgling United States paid for its first war. Farley Grubb upends the common telling of this story, in which the United States printed cross-colony money, called Continentals, to serve as an early fiat currency—a currency that is not tied to a commodity like gold, but rather to a legal authority. As Grubb details, the Continental was not ...

This book provides the most comprehensive history of German migration to North America for the period 1709 to 1920 than has been done before. Employing state-of-the-art methodological and statistical techniques, the book has two objectives. First he explores how the recruitment and shipping markets for immigrants were set up, determining what the voyage was like in terms of the health outcomes for the passengers, and identifying the characteristics of the immigrants in terms of family, age...

Sous le co-pilotage de Bruno Cabrillac, directeur général de la Fondation pour les études et la recherche sur le développement international (FERDI) et ancien directeur général adjoint de la Banque de France, et de Pierre Jaillet, ancien directeur général (Économie et relations internationales) de la Banque de France et conseiller à l’Institut Jacques Delors - Notre Europe, et chercheur associé à l’IRIS, le numéro 160 de la Revue d’économie financière traite des « Mutations géopol...

Under the joint guidance of Bruno Cabrillac, Director of the Foundation for Studies and Research on International Development (FERDI) and former Deputy Director General of the Banque de France, and Pierre Jaillet, former Director General (Economics and International Relations) of the Banque de France, Advisor at the Jacques Delors Institute - Notre Europe, and associate researcher at IRIS, issue 160 of the Revue d’économie financière adresses “Geopolitical shifts, economic and fin...