The Founders and Finance
- ISBN-10
- 0674071352
- ISBN-13
- 9780674071353
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 495
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-10-08
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Thomas K. McCraw
Description
In 1776 the U.S. owed huge sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens but, lacking the power to tax, had no means to repay them. This is the first book to tell the story of how foreign-born financial specialists—the immigrant founders Hamilton and Gallatin—solved the fiscal crisis and set the nation on a path to long-term economic prosperity.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2012-10-08
- 390 pages
- Paperback
- Harvard University Press
Similar books
-
Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation
By William HogelandThis story exposes and corrects a perpetual historical denial—by movements across the political spectrum—of America’s all-important founding economic clashes, a denial that weakens and cheapens public discourse on American finance ...
-
The Founders' Fortunes: How Money Shaped the Birth of America
By Willard Sterne RandallPlatt , J. D. R. Jeremiah Wadsworth , Federalist Entrepreneur . New York : Columbia University Press , 1955 . Potts , Louis W. Arthur Lee : A Virtuous Revolutionary . Baton Rouge : University of Louisiana Press , 1981 .
-
Fintech Founders: Inspiring Tales from the Entrepreneurs that are Changing Finance
By Agustin RubiniThis book is for entrepreneurs, for people working inside of large organizations and everyone in between who is interested to learn the secrets of successful entrepreneurs.
-
The Founders of Modern Finance: Their Prize-winning Concepts and 1990 Nobel Lectures
By William F. Sharpe, Harry Markowitz, Merton H. MillerContains Nobel lectures and articles by Harry M. Markowitz, William F. Sharpe, and Merton H. Miller.
-
The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
By Jimmy SoniTheir success was anything but certain. In The Founders: The Story of PayPal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley, award-winning author and biographer Jimmy Soni explores PayPal’s turbulent early days.
-
The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup
By Noam Wasserman"This book provides the rare combination of practical advice and scholarly research. It gets to the heart of the people issues that can bedevil every, and I do mean every, startup.
-
A History of Corporate Finance
By Jonathan Barron Baskin, Paul J. Mirantimation for management about such matters as the relative costs and profitability of segments of the enterprise . ... H. Thomas Johnson and Robert S. Kaplan , Relevance Lost : The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting ( Boston : Harvard ...
-
The Federal Reserve and Its Founders: Money Politics and Power
By Richard A. NaclerioRichard A. Naclerio investigates the events that surrounded the U.S. Federal Reserve's creation and the bankers, financiers, and economists who shaped its role over the next century.
-
Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders
By Dennis C. RasmussenGeorge Washington to Henry Lee, 21 July 1793, in PGWP 13:261. 6. George Washington to Edmund Pendleton, 23 September 1793, in PGWP 14:124. 7. On the Genêt affair, see Harry Ammon, e Genet Mission (New York: W.W. Norton, 1973). 8.
-
The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of...
By Francesca Trivellato... Laws and Usages Respecting Bills of Exchange, and Promissory Notes (Philadelphia: T. Stephens, 1795), 1 (though an early American print, the latter describes its author on the frontispiece as a “notary public of Belfast”).