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Discusses the relationship between state-issued currency and the ratification of the United States Constitution. Significance of paper money on the economic policies of the colonial legislatures; Role of the constitution on the regulation of money; Importance of state paper money on the money supply of the colonies in the 1700s.

Explores how the banks chartered by states in the United States (U.S.) provide a source of flexibility in state public finance following the decision of the U.S. Constitution to remove the states' power to issue paper money. Role of investment earnings and tax revenues derived from banks in state public finance; Importance of state-bank relationships to public finance.

Presents an abstract of the paper `Establishing a Monetary Union: The United States's Experience,' by Arthur J. Rolnick, Bruce D. Smith and Warren E. Weber, presented at the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `The Company Town, the Union, and the Mine Wars: The Role of Institution and Conflict in West Virginia's Early Mine-Labor Market,' by Lawrence W. Boyd, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the study `Possession is Nine Points of the Law: Land Auctions, Squatting, and the Preemption Acts,' by Mark T. Kanazawa, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of a research paper entitled `Patents and the Paths of Innovation in American Railroading, 1846-1900,' by Steven W. Usselman, presented at the annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `Income Growth and Inequality: Considering the New York Housing Censuses, 1855-1875,' by Lee Soltow, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `Price and Quantum Indices of the United States-Cuba Trade, 1821-1898,' by Linda K. Salvucci and Richard J. Salvucci, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `The Regional Distribution of Patents in the United States: Invention and Uneven Regional Development,' by Ross Thomson, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `A Prelude to the Welfare State: Compulsory State Insurance and Workers' Compensation in Minnesota, Ohio, and Washington, 1911-1919,' by Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

The article discusses the exact amount of the money issued by the United States Congress for the financing of the American Revolution. During the revolution, Congress released paper money otherwise called Continental dollars to finance its expenditures. Past literatures have claimed the exact amount spent but they left behind unclear and conflicting estimates. The article traces back the transactions that took place from the enactment to disbursement of the dollars. The article presents supporting tables on estimates and cumulative total net emissions of the continental dollars.

Presents an abstract of the study `Down and Out or Up and Out? The Occupational and Financial Mobility of Nonpersisters in the Antebellum United States,' by Joseph P. Fernie, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Examines the relationship between international trade and regional American credit markets. General agreement about the expansion of the American capital market; What the geographic expansion of the commercial paper market allowed.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on an understanding of general purpose technologies adoption patterns in the electrification of U.S. manufacturing from 1880 to 1930.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on the origins of the U.S. Better Business Bureau.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on the status of the iron foundries in the U.S. East Coast from 1820 to 1860.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper comparing the development of corporations in Great Britain and the U.S.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on private investments and government subsidies in the cotton trade in Texas.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on patterns of law reform in the U.S. from 1880 to 1940.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper comparing the effect of the economy on the health of industrial workers in the U.S. and Great Britain in the late 19th century.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on the effect of U.S. silver mining on Spain's economy from 1501 to 1650.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on the financial aspects of cotton production in the U.S.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on the impact of the 1929 economic depression on the progress of technological innovations in the U.S.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on the public ownership of the U.S. waterworks from 1897 to 1915.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on public utility ownership in the U.S. in the 19th century.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on the research collaborations between U.S. industries and universities.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on the patent system, technological learning and invention in the U.S.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on the evolution of schooling institutions in the U.S.