TY  - JOUR
AU  - Grubb,Farley
TI  - The Distribution of Congressional Spending During the American Revolution, 1775-1780: The Problem of Geographic Balance
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14267
PY  - 2008
Y2  - August 2008
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14267
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14267.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Farley Grubb
University of Delaware
Economics Department
Newark, DE  19716
Tel: 302/831-1905
Fax: 302/831-6968
E-Mail: grubbf@udel.edu
AB  - Resources to fight the War for Independence from Great Britain (1775-1783) were to be provided to the U.S. Congress by the individual states based on each state's population share in the united colonies. Congressional spending, however, largely flowed to where the theater of war was located. Thus a geographic imbalance in revenue and spending arose. Because much of the spending was through issuing paper money, geographic variation in inflation as well as in general economic activity resulted. This in turn affected the relative strength of each state's attachment to the union with ramifications on maintaining political unity.
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