The first attempt in the human history to consciously create money ended in a collapse in 1720, well-known as the money mania. This unfortunate start raises doubt on money creation as a whole such that today there are still voices questioning created money even though it is now indispensible for...

We show that decentralized privately created money with unstable values can hinder the traded, more transaction-friction sensitive, sector of the economy. We do so in the context of the NationalBanking Act of 1864 in the United States that created a new federally-regulated, fully-backed currency...

Introduction : between moral economies of money and monetary silence -- Settler democracy as a monetary school : toward moral economies of money -- Moral economies of money -- Monetary silencing and the romance of unmediated exchanges -- Greenback moral economies -- What kinds of people should...