Robinson Crusoe's Money; or, The Remarkable Financial Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Remote Island Community
| Title | Robinson Crusoe's Money; or, The Remarkable Financial Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Remote Island Community |
| Year for Search | 1876 |
| Authors | Wells, David A[mes](1828-98) |
| Date Published | 1876 |
| Publisher | Harper and Brothers |
| Place Published | New York |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | An argument against the policy of printing more currency as a solution to economic problems presented as the history of an imaginary island that tries the policy and suffers the consequences. On the greenback movement, as the movement against paper money was called in the U.S., see Irwin Unger, The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1892; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1896; and New York: Peter Smith, 1931. The 1896 ed. rpt. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1969. |
| Illustration | Illus. Thomas Nast. |
| Holding Institutions | MoU-St, W3,5858 |
| Author Note | (1828-98) |
| Full Text | 1876 Wells, David A[mes] (1828-98). Robinson Crusoe’s Money; or, The Remarkable Financial Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Remote Island Community. With Illustrations by Thomas Nast. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1876. Rpt. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1892; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1896; and New York: Peter Smith, 1931. The 1896 ed. rpt. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1969. MoU-St, W3,5858 An argument against the policy of printing more currency as a solution to economic problems presented as the history of an imaginary island that tries the policy and suffers the consequences. On the greenback movement, as the movement against paper money was called in the U.S., see Irwin Unger, The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964. |
