ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the importance of the new political environment that existed for the public debate about the themes of monetary circulation and the public debt, showing the quantitative and qualitative significance of contributions originating from an effervescent civil society keen to find solutions for the redemption of paper money and the resolution of the sovereign debt. The main issue under discussion in this chapter is the importance of the public sphere (periodical press, published pamphlets and Parliamentary debates) in raising collective awareness about the monetary and financial difficulties that the new liberal State was called upon to resolve.
