CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. MAPS. TABLES. CHARTS xiii
5. INTRODUCTION: LIBERAL THOUGHT AND PUBLIC POLICY xv
6. CHAPTER I. PLANNING FOR ECONOMIC FREEDOM 1
7. PART ONE BRITISH AND COLONIAL BACKGROUNDS
8. CHAPTER II. POVERTY AND BENEVOLENCE 13
9. CHAPTER III. IMPERIALISM, AGRARIAN CAPITALISM, AND THE LIBERAL AWAKENING 47
10. PART TWO THE NEW STATE AND THE ECONOMY
11. CHAPTER IV. THE PUBLIC DOMAIN AND EARLY LAND POLICY 69
12. CHAPTER V. SOLDIERS AND SPECULATORS 93
13. CHAPTER VI. FISCAL PROBLEMS AND THE CURRENCY, 1775-1799 118
14. PART THREE THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC ECONOMIC POLICY
15. CHAPTER VII. THE STATE RECHARTS ITS LAND POLICY 139
16. CHAPTER VIII. BANKING THEORIES AND POLICIES, 1800-1824 159
17. CHAPTER IX. BANKING POLICIES, 1825-1860 189
18. CHAPTER X. DEFINING A SYSTEM OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS: WATERWAYS AND ROADWAYS 231
19. CHAPTER XI. A STATE SYSTEM OF RAILWAYS 254
20. CHAPTER XII. PUBLIC ACTION AND THE GROWTH OF CORPORATE ENTERPRISE 293
21. CHAPTER XIII. THE STATE AND HUMAN RESOURCES 336
22. CHAPTER XIV. THE STATE AS REGULATOR 357
23. CHAPTER XV. FISCAL POLICY 368
24. APPENDIX 391
25. NOTES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY 399
26. INDEX 443