One of the very earliest land bank/mutual bank documents is available online: The Key of Wealth: Or, A New Way for Improving of Trade, by William Potter (1650).
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1741: Petition of London Merchants against the Land Bank
THE PETITION OF LONDON MERCHANTS TO PARLIAMENT,11 FEBRUARY 1741 A petition of the several merchants of London, and others, whose names are thereunto subscribed, in behalf of themselves, and great numbers of merchants, traders, and […]
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Radical Deficiency of the Existing Circulating Medium, 1857
William B. Greene’s 1857 Radical Deficiency of the Existing Circulating Medium, and the Advantages of a Mutual Currency is now online in the Libertarian Labyrinth. This is the text issued during the Panic of 1857—at […]
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1850: The Hotbed of Mutual Banking Agitation
In the years 1849 and 1850, William B. Greene published Equality and Mutual Banking, describing his Christian Mutualism and setting out the details of the real estate based mutual bank. He was at that time, […]