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Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American Republic by Robert E. Wright (Hardcover, 2002)

Applying modern financial theories to early American historiography enables a strikingly novel and compelling recasting of our nation's formative decades. Using modern financial theories enables us to look at old problems in early American Republic historiography from new perspectives. Concepts such as information asymmetry, portfolio choice, and principal-agent dilemmas open up new scholarly vistas. Transcending the ongoing debates over the prevalence of either community or capitalism in early America, Wright offers fresh and compelling arguments that illuminate motivations for individual and collective actions, and brings agency back into the historical equation. As an innovative and insightful synthesis of scholarship, economists, historians, and political scientists alike will be interested in this strikingly novel and compelling recasting of our nation's formative decades. For example, Wright argues that the Colonial rebellion was in part sparked by destabilizing British monetary policy that threatened many with financial insolvency; that in areas without modern financial institutions and practices, dueling was a rational means of protecting one's creditworthiness; that the principle-agent problem led to the institutionalization of the U.S. Constitution's system of checks and balances; and that a lack of information and education induced women to shift from active business owners to passive investors.

Subject Area
Political Science
Author
Robert E. Wright
Publication Name
Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American Republic
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Economics, History
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
248 Pages

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