Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and Debt

by Richard Sylla, David Cowen, David J. Cowen

Book Overview

While serving as the first Treasury Secretary from 1789 to 1795, Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. Hamilton established the Treasury debt market, the dollar, and a central bank, while strategically prompting private entrepreneurs to establish securities markets and stock exchanges and encouraging state governments to charter a number of commercial banks and other business corporations. Yet despite a recent surge of interest...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231184573
• ISBN13: 9780231184571
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.7"