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The founders and finance : how Hamilton, Gallatin, and other immigrants forged a new economy /

In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McCraw, Thomas K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
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