Kaufman Lecture, finance
Natalie Vania
Hello, hope everyone enjoyed Navroze and has a great New Year.
An interesting lecture at the Museum of American Finance is coming up.
Please let me know if any of you would like to join me.
Details of the event are appended. Thanks folks.
Best Regards,
Natalie
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2008 Henry Kaufman Financial History
and Practices Lecture/Symposia Series
Dr. Stephen Mihm
"A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the
United States"
Thursday, April 17, 2008
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
(Q & A, reception and book signing following the presentation)
Museum of American Finance
48 Wall Street (corner of William and Wall)
New York City
Non-members: $15.00
Few of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our
purses, pockets and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a
recent phenomenon: prior to the Civil War, the United States did not
have a single, national currency. Instead, countless banks issued paper
money in a bewildering variety of denominations and designs - more than
10,000 different kinds by 1860. Counterfeiters flourished amid this
anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation.
Their success, Stephen Mihm reveals, is more than an entertaining tale
of criminal enterprise: it is the story of the rise of a country defined
by a free-wheeling brand of capitalism over which the federal government
exercised little control. It was an era when responsibility for the
country's currency remained in the hands of capitalists for whom "making
money" was as much a literal as a figurative undertaking. A Nation of
Counterfeiters is a trailblazing work of history, one that casts the
country's capitalist roots in a startling new light.
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