This volume assembles a broad selection of rare primary resource materials in the form of essays, reports, books and compendia informing on US public finances i

This volume assembles a broad selection of rare primary resource materials in the form of essays, reports, books and compendia informing on US public finances i

This volume covers the latter half of the nineteenth century and concepts such as inflation, the international market for bonds, and the complicated structure o

This volume assembles a broad selection of rare primary resource materials in the form of essays, reports, books and compendia informing on US public finances i

How did Americans come to quantify their society’s progress and well-being in units of money? In today’s GDP-run world, prices are the standard measure of n