Global silver: Bullion or Specie? Supply and demand in the making of the early modern global economy
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- Irigoin, Alejandra, 2018. "Global silver: bullion or specie? Supply and demand in the making of the early modern global economy," Economic History Working Papers 90190, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
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Keywords
Silver specie; international currency; international trade; monetary capacity; currency trade; global Smithian growth; early modern global economy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
- F6 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization
- N10 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - General, International, or Comparative
- N13 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- N15 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Asia including Middle East
- N16 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - Latin America; Caribbean
- N2 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions
- N7 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-INT-2018-10-08 (International Trade)
- NEP-MAC-2018-10-08 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-MON-2018-10-08 (Monetary Economics)
- NEP-SEA-2018-10-08 (South East Asia)
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