Founding choices : American economic policy in the 1790s / edited by Douglas A. Irwin and Richard Sylla.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Irwin, Douglas A., 1962-

Sylla, Richard Eugene.

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

NBER-Conference Report

National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Economic policy--18th century--Congresses.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (365 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Dartmouth College on May 8-9, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613066176

9781283066174

1283066173

9780226384764

0226384764

OCLC:

712016227