5. Federal and State Commercial Banking Policy in the Federalist Era and Beyond

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. National Bureau of Economic Research v
3. Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research vi
4. Contents vii
5. Acknowledgments ix
6. The Significance of the Founding Choices: Editors’ Introduction 1
7. I. Politics
8. 1. The Constitutional Choices of 1787 and Their Consequences 25
9. II. Policy
10. 2. Financial Foundations: Public Credit, the National Bank, and Securities Markets 59
11. 3. Revenue or Reciprocity? Founding Feuds over Early U.S. Trade Policy 89
12. 4. Monetary Policy and the Dollar 121
13. 5. Federal and State Commercial Banking Policy in the Federalist Era and Beyond 151
14. 6. The Other Foundings: Federalism and the Constitutional Structure of American Government 177
15. III. Business Organization and the Factors of Production
16. 7. Rise of the Corporation Nation 217
17. 8. U.S. Land Policy: Founding Choices and Outcomes, 1781– 1802 259
18. 9. Free Labor and Slave Labor 291
19. 10. Looking Backward: Founding Choices in Innovation and Intellectual Property Protection 315
20. Contributors 343
21. Author Index 345
22. Subject Index 351