Alexander Hamilton On Finance Credit And Debt

Author : Richard Sylla
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154555X
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and Debt written by Richard Sylla and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A treasure trove for financial and public policy geeks . . . will also help lay readers go beyond the hit musical in understanding Hamilton’s lasting significance.” —Publishers Weekly While serving as the first treasury secretary from 1789 to 1795, Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. He established the treasury debt market, the dollar, and a central bank, while strategically prompting private entrepreneurs to establish securities markets and stock exchanges and encouraging state governments to charter a number of commercial banks and other business corporations. Yet despite a recent surge of interest in Hamilton, US financial modernization has not been fully recognized as one of his greatest achievements. This book traces the development of Hamilton’s financial thinking, policies, and actions through a selection of his writings. Financial historians and Hamilton experts Richard Sylla and David J. Cowen provide commentary that demonstrates the impact Hamilton had on the modern economic system, guiding readers through Hamilton’s distinguished career. It showcases Hamilton’s thoughts on the nation’s founding, the need for a strong central government, problems such as a depreciating paper currency and weak public credit, and the architecture of the financial system. His great state papers on public credit, the national bank, the mint, and manufactures instructed reform of the nation’s finances and jumpstarted economic growth. Hamilton practiced what he preached: he played a key role in the founding of three banks and a manufacturing corporation—and his deft political maneuvering and economic savvy saved the fledgling republic’s economy during the country’s first full-blown financial crisis in 1792. “A fascinating examination of Hamiltonian economics.” —The Washington Times

Author : David Cowen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231184571
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and Debt written by David Cowen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of Alexander Hamilton's financial thinking, policies, and actions through a selection of his writings. The financial historians and Hamilton experts Richard Sylla and David J. Cowen provide commentary that demonstrates the impact Hamilton had on the modern economic system.

Author : Alexander Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231184564
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and Debt written by Alexander Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of Alexander Hamilton's financial thinking, policies, and actions through a selection of his writings. The financial historians and Hamilton experts Richard Sylla and David J. Cowen provide commentary that demonstrates the impact Hamilton had on the modern economic system.

Author : Robert E. Wright
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071543945
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe written by Robert E. Wright and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like its current citizens, the United States was born in debt-a debt so deep that it threatened to destroy the young nation. Thomas Jefferson considered the national debt a monstrous fraud on posterity, while Alexander Hamilton believed debt would help America prosper. Both, as it turns out, were right. One Nation Under Debt explores the untold history of America's first national debt, which arose from the immense sums needed to conduct the American Revolution. Noted economic historian Robert Wright, Ph.D. tells in riveting narrative how a subjugated but enlightened people cast off a great tyrant-“but their liberty, won with promises as well as with the blood of patriots, came at a high price.” He brings to life the key events that shaped the U.S. financial system and explains how the actions of our forefathers laid the groundwork for the debt we still carry today. As an economically tenuous nation by Revolution's end, America's people struggled to get on their feet. Wright outlines how the formation of a new government originally reduced the nation's debt-but, as debt was critical to this government's survival, it resurfaced, to be beaten back once more. Wright then reveals how political leaders began accumulating massive new debts to ensure their popularity, setting the financial stage for decades to come. Wright traces critical evolutionary developments-from Alexander Hamilton's creation of the nation's first modern capital market, to the use of national bonds to further financial goals, to the drafting of state constitutions that created non-predatory governments. He shows how, by the end of Andrew Jackson's administration, America's financial system was contributing to national growth while at the same time new national and state debts were amassing, sealing the fate for future generations.

Author : Alexander Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.9J/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Finance written by Alexander Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas K. McCraw
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071352
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Founders and Finance written by Thomas K. McCraw and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war’s end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders and Finance is the first book to tell the story of how foreign-born financial specialists—immigrants—solved the fiscal crisis and set the United States on a path to long-term economic success. Pulitzer Prize–winning author Thomas K. McCraw analyzes the skills and worldliness of Alexander Hamilton (from the Danish Virgin Islands), Albert Gallatin (from the Republic of Geneva), and other immigrant founders who guided the nation to prosperity. Their expertise with liquid capital far exceeded that of native-born plantation owners Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, who well understood the management of land and slaves but had only a vague knowledge of financial instruments—currencies, stocks, and bonds. The very rootlessness of America’s immigrant leaders gave them a better understanding of money, credit, and banks, and the way each could be made to serve the public good. The remarkable financial innovations designed by Hamilton, Gallatin, and other immigrants enabled the United States to control its debts, to pay for the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, and—barely—to fight the War of 1812, which preserved the nation’s hard-won independence from Britain.

Author : George Rogers Taylor
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434450457
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hamilton and the National Debt written by George Rogers Taylor and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study on problems in American civilization, prepared by the Department of American Studies, Amherst College.

Author : Alexander Hamilton
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8027244153
Total Pages : 597 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Economic Policies of Alexander Hamilton written by Alexander Hamilton and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. It presents Alexander Hamilton's views on American economy. As the first Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton was the main author of the economic policies of the George Washington administration. He took the lead in the funding of the states' debts by the Federal government, as well as the establishment of a national bank, a system of tariffs, and friendly trade relations with Britain. His vision included a strong central government led by a vigorous executive branch, a strong commercial economy, with a national bank and support for manufacturing, plus a strong military. Contents: Writings and Speeches on Taxation and Finance Papers on National Bank Papers on Coinage and the Mint Papers on Industry and Commerce Writings and Speeches on Commercial Relations Biography of Alexander Hamilton by Emory Speer

Author : United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexander Hamilton's Famous Report on Manufactures written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Papers on Public Credit, Commerce, and Finance written by Alexander Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: