WALKER, Amasa.

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The Nature and Uses of Money and Mixed Currency, with a History of the Wickaboag Bank. First edition, derived from Walker's articles published in Hunt's Merchant Magazine between June and September 1857, which explained the reasons for financial panics; the United States was then enduring a series of bank runs.The articles ensured Walker (1799-1875), then lecturer in political economy at Harvard, came to be seen as an expert on the subject. He later played a prominent role in the revision of laws pertaining to banking and the issuing of paper money, and published further books on economics, which did much to shape American economic thought.

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