Looking Back On the Age of Checking in America, 1800-1960
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payment system; personal checks; banks; United States;JEL classification:
- E42 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Monetary Sytsems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System
- G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
- N14 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: 1913-
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- NEP-MAC-2017-04-30 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-PAY-2017-04-30 (Payment Systems & Financial Technology)
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