عنوان

The founders and finance :

شابک

0674066928 (hbk.)

شابک

9780674066922 (hbk.)

شماره

b413439

عنوان اصلي

The founders and finance :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

how Hamilton, Gallatin, and other immigrants forged a new economy /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Thomas K. McCraw

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Cambridge, Mass. :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2012

نام خاص و کميت اثر

viii, 485 p. :

ساير جزييات

ill. ;

ابعاد

25 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

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{8217}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{8212}immigrants{8212}solved the fiscal crisis and set the United States on a path to long-term economic success. Pulitzer Prize{8211}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{8212}currencies, stocks, and bonds. The very rootlessness of America{8217}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{8212}barely{8212}to fight the War of 1812, which preserved the nation{8217}s hard-won independence from Britain

موضوع مستند نشده

Gallatin, Albert,1761-1849

موضوع مستند نشده

Hamilton, Alexander,1757-1804

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Finance, Public-- United States-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

Monetary policy-- United States-- History

موضوع مستند نشده

United States, Economic policy

موضوع مستند نشده

United States, History, 1783-1865

موضوع مستند نشده

United States, History, Revolution, 1775-1783

موضوع مستند نشده

United States, Politics and government, 1783-1865

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شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

McCraw, Thomas K

تاريخ عمليات

20121010123436.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y