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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wright, Robert E. (Robert Eric), 1969- Hamilton unbound. Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 2002 (OCoLC)654126074 |
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| Named Person: | Alexander Hamilton |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert E Wright |
| ISBN: | 0313323976 9780313323973 0275978168 9780275978167 |
| OCLC Number: | 49226430 |
| Description: | xii, 230 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Interest Rates and the Coming of the American Revolution -- A Brief Review of British Mercantile Policies and Their Impact on Colonial Money Supplies -- Interest Rates in Colonial America -- Balance-Sheet Deterioration -- "Debtor" Angst -- The Causes of the American Revolution: A Cost-Benefit Approach -- Early U.S. Constitutions as Solutions to the Principal-Agent Problem -- The Theory of Information Asymmetry -- Information Asymmetry in the Colonial Era -- The Simultaneous Emergence of Political and Corporate Governance -- Constitutional Methods for Limiting Agency Problems in Government -- Constitutional Failures: Pennsylvania's First Constitution and the Articles of Confederation -- Constitutional Successes: New York's First Constitution and the U.S. Constitution -- Financial Development, Economic Growth, and Political Stability -- Precursors and Precedents -- The U.S. Financial Revolution, 1787-1800 -- Evidence of Financial-Sector Efficiency and Sophistication, 1790-1850 -- Evidence of Relative Size and Importance -- Banks and the "Revolution" of 1800 -- A Short History of Banking in Eighteenth-Century America -- Artisanal Demand for Bank Discounts -- The Manhattan Company and Bank -- Burr, the Bank, and the Crucial Assembly Election -- Further Evidence of the Commercial Republican Revolution -- Credit Analysis and the Prevalence of Dueling -- How Institutional Lenders Reduced Information Asymmetry -- A Bloodier, More Personal "Solution" -- Nineteenth-Century Residues of "Character"-Based Lending. |
| Series Title: | Contributions in economics and economic history, no. 228. |
| Responsibility: | Robert E. Wright. |
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