Estonian kroon Estonian kroon The kroon (sign: kr; code: EEK) was the official currency of Estonia for two periods in history: 1928–1940 and 1992–2011. Between 1 January and 14 January 2011, the kroon circulated together with the euro, after which the euro became the sole legal tender in Estonia. The kroon was subdivided into 100 cents ("senti"; singular "sent"). The word "kroon" (, “crown”) is related to that of the Nordic currencies (such as the Swedish krona and the Danish and Norwegian krone) and derived from the Latin word "corona" ("crown"). The kroon succeeded the mark in 1928 and was in use
A Monetary History of the United States late 1940s and eventually published "A Monetary History" through Princeton University Press in 1963. The Depression-related chapter, "The Great Contraction," was republished as a separate book in 1965. The book discusses the role of the monetary policy in the U.S. economy from the Civil War Reconstruction Era to the middle of the 20th century. It presents what was then a contrarian view of the role of monetary policy in the Great Depression. The prevalent view in the early 1960s was that monetary forces played a passive role in the economic contraction of the 1930s. The "Monetary History" argues that the