1st Edition

The Emergence of a National Economy Vol 3 The United States from Independence to the Civil War

324 Pages
by Routledge

324 Pages
by Routledge

This collection brings together a comprehensive selection of documents from the history of US and Canadian economic thought from the 17th century through to 1900.

VOLUME III The National Bank, Money, Credit and Debt, 1776–1820 (part I) Pelatiah Webster, Essays on Free Trade and Finance (1779–85) Pelatiah Webster, An Essay on Credit (1786) Robert Morris, Plan for Establishing a National Bank (1781) Robert Morris, Propositions Respecting the Coinage of Gold, Silver, and Copper (1785) William Barton, Observations on the Nature and Use of Paper-Credit (1781) William Barton, The True Interest of the United States Considered (1786) Samuel Gale, On the Nature and Principles of Public Credit (1784) John Witherspoon, Essay on Money as a Medium of Commerce (1786) Tench Coxe, Thoughts Concerning the Bank of North America (1787)

Biography

William J. Barber, Marianne Johnson, Malcolm Rutherford