David M Batt
Biographic Data
| ID | 4226568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David M Batt |
| GIVEN NAMES | David M |
| FAMILY NAME | Batt |
| SIGNATURE | BATT D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame , Notre Dame, IN , |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
General and Special Providence in Contemporary Accounts of Spanish New World Inflation
While recent scholarship has explored the theological foundations of modern economic ideas, it has focused almost exclusively on general or ordinary providence (God’s action through secondary, natural causes) at the expense of special or extraordinary providence (God’s action in the world through direct primary causation, often outside or beyond the natural order). This paper challenges this by arguing that the transformation of providence into m…
The Age of Paper
The 1783 proposal for a readymade note at the Bank of England
This article analyses the 1783 proposal to issue readymade notes to the Bank of England's private banking customers. Prior to 1783, I argue that there were two broad categories under which the Bank issued its notes into circulation: (1) notes which were issued to government in relation to the Bank's role as facilitator of the fiscal revenues of state, and (2) notes which were issued to its private banking customers. The readymade note was a form …
Depoliticisation, technical discourse, and paper-money
This article looks at the controversy which emerged between the Bank of England and a number of external actors over various proposals to modify the printing of the Bank’s paper-money during the Bank restriction period of 1797–1821. As a result of this controversy, the debate over the best method to prevent the forgery of the Bank’s paper-money became increasingly technical and specialised over the Restriction period. I argue that, as a result of…
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Depoliticisation, technical discourse, and paper-money
This article looks at the controversy which emerged between the Bank of England and a number of external actors over various proposals to modify the printing of the Bank’s paper-money during the Bank restriction period of 1797–1821. As a result of this controversy, the debate over the best method to prevent the forgery of the Bank’s paper-money became increasingly technical and specialised over the Restriction period. I argue that, as a result of…
The 1783 proposal for a readymade note at the Bank of England
This article analyses the 1783 proposal to issue readymade notes to the Bank of England's private banking customers. Prior to 1783, I argue that there were two broad categories under which the Bank issued its notes into circulation: (1) notes which were issued to government in relation to the Bank's role as facilitator of the fiscal revenues of state, and (2) notes which were issued to its private banking customers. The readymade note was a form …
The Age of Paper
General and Special Providence in Contemporary Accounts of Spanish New World Inflation
While recent scholarship has explored the theological foundations of modern economic ideas, it has focused almost exclusively on general or ordinary providence (God’s action through secondary, natural causes) at the expense of special or extraordinary providence (God’s action in the world through direct primary causation, often outside or beyond the natural order). This paper challenges this by arguing that the transformation of providence into m…
Economics (3 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Monetary economics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Action (physics) (1 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Australian History and Society (1 works) · Bank account (1 works)