The United States Monopolization of Bank Note Production
Politics, Government, and the Greenback, 1862–1878
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16769458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Franklin Noll (United States Department of the Treasury, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-43 |
| Publication date | 2012-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Nineteenth Century History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-4658 • E-ISSN: 1743-7903 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14664658.2012.681942 |
| OpenAlex | W2047168365 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
Between 1862 and 1878, the view of the United States government towards the nation's money was transformed. Early in the Civil War, the government got into the bank note printing business out of necessity, printing and issuing the first-ever federal currency. Over the following years, debates raged whether the national currency should be printed privately or by the government's bank note printer, the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP). Matters came to a head in 1878 when Congress debated the future of the BEP. That year, in a radical departure from the past, Congress gave the Bureau of Engraving and Printing a monopoly on the production of currency, forever changing the role of the government in the nation's economy. Money, be it in the form of coin or currency, was now the exclusive province of the government – not private banks or bank note companies. This change was the result of a rare consensus between Democrats and Republicans and between the forces of the antimonopoly tradition, Greenbackism, and hard money. For various reasons, they were unanimous in believing that the government, especially Congress, should be in control of those matters affecting the monetary affairs of the country
Currency · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Government (linguistics · Market economy · Monetary economics · Monopolization · Monopoly · Political economy · Political science · Politics · American Constitutional Law and Politics · American History and Culture · Economic, financial, and policy analysis · Law · Public Administration
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |