Learning Resource: Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy

contributor Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 520 educational resource Federal Reserve Historical Education Materials 276 Money 4251 Inflation (Finance) 4226 United States 4293 <p>This illustrated booklet and accompanying classroom lesson tells readers about Benjamin Franklin’s role in the debate about devising a system of paper money in the British colonies that would become the United States, and about Franklin's monetary philosophy.</p> eng Learning Resource: Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy multipart Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia 2006-03-30 2006-03-30 5959 2025-12-18 14:39:47 2018-10-03 16:24:43 title text http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/ born digital https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/learning-resource-benjamin-franklin-birth-a-paper-money-economy-5959 https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/images/record-thumbnail.jpg https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/api/title/5959