A tale of paper and gold: the material history money in South Africa
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- Ellen Feingold & Johan Fourie & Leigh Gardner, 2021. "A tale of paper and gold: The material history of money in South Africa," Economic History of Developing Regions, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(2), pages 264-281, May.
- Feingold, Ellen & Fourie, Johan & Gardner, Leigh, 2021. "A tale of paper and gold: the material history of money in South Africa," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 110367, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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South Africa; currency; colonialism; mineral; REF Impact Fund;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N47 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - Africa; Oceania
- N17 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Africa; Oceania
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2021-10-18 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-MON-2021-10-18 (Monetary Economics)
- NEP-PAY-2021-10-18 (Payment Systems and Financial Technology)
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