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Founding choices [electronic resource] : American economic policy in the 1790s / edited by Douglas A. Irwin and Richard Sylla.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Description
1 online resource (365 p.)
Availability
Available Online
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Subject(s)
United States
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Economic policy
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18th century
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Irwin, Douglas A., 1962-
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Sylla, Richard Eugene
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National Bureau of Economic Research
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Series
NBER-Conference Report
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National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
Summary note
The political decisions made by the founding fathers were crucial to the success of the early republic. But the economic decisions they made were just as pivotal, ensuring the general welfare and common defense of the United States for decades to come. Founding Choices explores these economic choices and their profound influence on American life, westward expansion, and influence abroad. Among the topics covered are finance, trade, and monetary and banking policy, with a focus on the factors guiding those policies and their end result. This book redresses the relative neglect of the economic achievements of the founders. It will be essential reading for historians and economists alike.
Notes
Papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Dartmouth College on May 8-9, 2009.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Language note
English
Contents
The significance of the founding choices: editor's introduction / Douglas A. Irwin and Richard Sylla
Politics. The constitutional choices of 1787 and their consequences / Sonia Mittal, Jack N. Rakove, and Barry R. Weingast
Policy. Financial foundations: public credit, the national bank, and securities markets / Richard Sylla
Revenue or reciprocity? founding feuds over early U.S. trade policy / Douglas A. Irwin
Monetary policy and the dollar / Peter l. Rousseau
Federal and state commercial banking policy in the federalist era and beyond / Howard Bodenhorn
The other foundings: federalism and the constitutional structure of American government / John Joseph Wallis
Business organization and the factors of production. Rise of the corporation nation / Robert E. Wright
U.S. land policy: founding choices and outcomes, 1781-1802 / Farley Grubb
Free labor and slave labor / Stanley L. Engerman and Robert A. Margo
Looking backward: founding choices in innovation and intellectual property protection / B. Zorina Khan.
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ISBN
1-283-06617-3
9786613066176
0-226-38476-4
OCLC
712016227
Doi
10.7208/9780226384764
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