Texas treasury notes and market manipulation, 1837–1842

Money in occupied New Orleans, 1862–1868: A test of Selgin’s “salvaging” of Gresham’s Law

“…Pecquet and Thies (2007) discuss the spontaneous rejection of the money of the Republic of Texas in favor of New Orleans money in 1841. Thies (2009a, b) describes the spontaneous rejection of the money of the Bank of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in favor of the notes of the Bank of the United States in 1821 and of gold in favor of New Orleans banknotes in Mississippi in 1842.…”

Polls and Elections: The Chicago Record Poll and the Election of 1896

“…From the nineteenth century into the twentieth, various states conducted state elections during the months prior to the presidential election. During the early part of the nineteenth century, when the Whigs and the Democrats were each competitive in the North and in the South, the results of many of these state elections were informative regarding the upcoming presidential election (e.g., the election of 1844; Pecquet and Thies ). But, by the late nineteenth century, only some state elections were informative, the most prominent being Maine.…”