Stamp Scrip: Money People Paid to Use

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Economic Commentary, Apr 2008 by Champ, Bruce

"Scrip and Other Forms of Local Money," by Joel William Canaday Harper. 1948. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago.

Stamp Scrip, by Irving Fisher. 1933. New York: Adelphi.

Bruce Champ is an economic advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The views he expresses here are his and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland or the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or its staff.

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