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STAMP SCRIP

By Irving Fisher, LL.D. (Professor of Economics, Yale University)
Assited by Hans R. L. Cohrssen and Herbert W. Fisher
New York; Adelphi Company; Publishers; Copyright 1933
 
 

CONTENTS

I. REASON FOR THIS BOOK 1

II. THE SWAP MOVEMENT IN 1933 3

III. STAMP SCRIP DESCRIBED 8

IV. THE FIRST EXPERIMENTS ABROAD 17

V. THE SUDDEN SPREAD OF "SCRIP" IN THE UNITED STATES 30

VI. A STAMP SCRIP MANUAL FOR LOCALITIES 45

VII. TO ANSWER YOUR CRITICS 57

VIII. BEYOND THE CITY HORIZON 59

IX. PRIMING THE PUMP 66
 
 

APPENDIX

I. THE BANKHEAD-PETTENGILL BILL 79

II. STAMP SCRIP AND BARTER EXCHANGES 83

III. SUGGESTED FORMS 86

IV. READING, PENNSYLVANIA 92

V. CONGRESSMAN PETTENGILL'S SPEECH 104

VI. A BILL IN THE PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE 113
 
 

LIST OF CHARTS

I. Stamp Scrip, as Proposed in Reading, Pennsylvania 9
II. Reverse of Reading Scrip Showing Weekly Dates 10
III. "Wära" Used in 1931 in Schwanenkirchen 23
IV. The Woergl Scrip 27
V. Scrip Used by Members of "Threefold Commonwealth" 41
VI. Showing Sweden's Stable Price Level Compared With America's Unstable Price Level 69

Das Buch ist archiviert in der Freiwirtschaftlichen Bibliothek in Varel wurde von W.Roehrig im Februar 2001 abgescannt und korrekturgelesen und ins Web gestellt. Es stammt aus dem Jahre 1933!