One of the very earliest land bank/mutual bank documents is available online: The Key of Wealth: Or, A New Way for Improving of Trade, by William Potter (1650).
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Reading around / Dyer D. Lum’s Alarm
I’ve been reading pretty broadly lately, pulling together articles related to the Liberty archive project and Utopia, OH, the Josiah Warren anthology. That’s taken me into the pages of The Egoist, where Benjamin Tucker, Bolton […]
Anarchism
William Beck’s “Money and Banking”
Money and Banking, Or Their Nature and Effects Considered (Cincinnati, 1839), published, and presumably written, by William Beck, was one of the major sources of William B. Greene’s mutual bank writings. It has also been […]
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1740: A Defense of the Land Bank
A LETTER TO THE MERCHANT IN LONDON TO WHOM IS DIRECTED A PRINTED LETTER RELATING TO THE MANUFACTORY UNDERTAKING,27 FEBRUARY 1740 I take the Freedom to send you and them the following Remarks on that […]