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- ISBN 9780226480336
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 03 Nov 2017
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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What should serve as money, who should control its creation and circulation, and according to what rules? For more than two hundred years, the "money question" shaped American social thought, becoming a central subject of political debate and class conflict. Sovereign of the Market reveals how and why this happened. Jeffrey Sklansky's wide-ranging study comprises three chronological parts devoted to major episodes in the career of the money question. First, the fight over the innovation of paper money in colonial New England. Second, the battle over the development of commercial banking in the new United States. And third, the struggle over the national banking system and the international gold standard in the late nineteenth century. Each section explores a broader problem of power that framed each conflict in successive phases of capitalist development: circulation, representation, and association. The three parts also encompass intellectual biographies of opposing reformers for each period, shedding new light on the connections between economic thought and other aspects of early American culture.
The result is a fascinating, insightful, and deeply considered contribution to the history of capitalism.
Jeffrey Sklansky is associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of The Soul's Economy: Market Society and Selfhood in American Thought, 1820-1920.
