Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and Debt /

Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and Debt / / David Cowen, Richard Sylla.

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 exchange...

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Cowen, David,
Sylla, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter one To - (December 1779-March 1780) The necessity of a foreign loan is now greater than ever.
  • Chapter two To James Duane (September 3, 1780) My ideas of the defects of our present system.
  • Chapter three To Robert Morris (April 30, 1781) Banks . . . the happiest engines that ever were invented for advancing trade.
  • Chapter four The Continentalist (1781-1782) There is something noble and magnificent . . . a great Federal Republic.
  • chapter five Constitution of the Bank of New York (February 23-March 15, 1784) The Bank shall be called . . . the Bank of New York.
  • chapter six To Thomas Willing (September 13, 1789) My inviolable attachment to the principles which form the basis of public credit.
  • chapter seven Report Relative to a Provision for the Support of Public Credit (January 9, 1790) The debt of the United States . . . was the price of liberty.
  • Chapter eight To Wilhem and Jan Willink, Nicholaas and Jacob Van Staphorst, and Nicholas Hubbard (August 28, 1790) The faith of our Government is fully pledged by the laws.
  • Chapter nine First Report on the Further Provision Necessary for Establishing Public Credit (December 13, 1790) Most immediately essential . . . is the establishment of funds for paying the interest.
  • Chapter ten Second Report on the Further Provision Necessary for Establishing Public Credit (Report on a National Bank, December 14, 1790) A National Bank is an institution of primary importance.
  • Chapter eleven Report on the Establishment of a Mint (January 28, 1791) The unit in the coins of the United States . . . a dollar in the money of account.
  • Chapter twelve Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act to Establish a National Bank (February 23, 1791) Every power vested in a Government is in its nature sovereign.
  • Chapter thirteen Prospectus of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures (August 1791) The establishment of Manufactures [is] of the highest importance.
  • Chapter fourteen Report on the Subject of Manufactures (December 5, 1791) The expediency of encouraging manufactures [is] pretty generally admitted.
  • Chapter fifteen To William Seton (February 10 and March 22, 1792) The superstructure of Credit is now too vast for the foundation.
  • Chapter seventeen The Defense of the Funding System (July 1795) Credit may be called a new power in the mechanism of national affairs.
  • Chapter eighteen Articles of Association of the Merchants Bank (April 7, 1803) We, the Subscribers, have formed a Company . . . the "Merchants' Bank."
  • Conclusion Legacies of the U.S. financial revolution.
  • Notes
  • Index

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