Richard Sylla, David Cowen

Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and Debt

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Produktbeschreibung

While serving as the first Treasury Secretary from 1789 to 1795, Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. Hamilton 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, U.S. financial modernization has not been fully recognized as one of his greatest achievements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780231184564
• ISBN-10: 0231184565
• Artikelnr.: 50207674

Autorenporträt

Richard Sylla and David J. Cowen

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Hamilton and the U.S. Financial Revolution
1. To - (December 1779-March 1780)
2. To James Duane (September 3, 1780)
3. To Robert Morris (April 30, 1781)
4. The Continentalist (1781-1782)
5. Constitution of the Bank of New York (February 23-March 15, 1784)
6. To Thomas Willing (September 13, 1789)
7. Report Relative to a Provision for the Support of Public Credit (January
9, 1790)
8. To Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and
Nicholas Hubbard (August 28, 1790)
9. First Report on the Further Provision Necessary for Establishing Public
Credit (December 13, 1790)
10. Second Report on the Further Provision Necessary for Establishing
Public Credit (Report on a National Bank, December 14, 1790)
11. Report on the Establishment of a Mint (January 28, 1791)
12. Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act to Establish a National Bank
(February 23, 1791)
13. Prospectus of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures (August
1791)
14. Report on the Subject of Manufactures (December 5, 1791)
15. Letters to William Seton (February 10 and March 22, 1792)
16. Report on a Plan for the Further Support of Public Credit (January 16,
1795)
17. The Defense of the Funding System (July 1795)
18. Articles of Association of the Merchants Bank (April 7, 1803)
19. Conclusion: Legacies of the U.S. Financial Revolution
Notes
Index

Rezensionen

Hamilton's writings always impress for their clarity of argument and, especially, for their prescient vision of the future of the American economy. Thanks to Richard Sylla and David J. Cowen for reminding us of that. Ben Bernanke, former chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System