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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1741: Petition of London Merchants against the Land Bank
THE PETITION OF LONDON MERCHANTS TO PARLIAMENT,11 FEBRUARY 1741 A petition of the several merchants of London, and others, whose names are thereunto subscribed, in behalf of themselves, and great numbers of merchants, traders, and […]
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Taking Proudhon (and controversy) out of “Mutual Banking”
A funny thing happened on the way to the modern edition of William B. Greene’s Mutual Banking. We know that with Mutual Banking, as was so often the case with Greene’s work, the editorial refinement […]
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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 […]