An Engine of Growth: Real Bills and Schumpeterian Banking in Antebellum New York

Explorations in Economic History

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 278-302

  Bodenhorn, Howard ^a  

^a LAFAYETTE COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0001653918     PISSN: 00144983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exeh.1999.0719     Document Type: Article

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