The power of the purse ; a history of American public finance, 1776-1790.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ferguson, E. James (Elmer James), 1917-2002
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press, [1961]
Subjects:	Finance, Public > United States > History > To 1789. United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Finance.

Table of Contents:

pt. I. The Revolution. Currency finance ; Square dollars ; Return to the states ; Mass expropriation ; Business, government, and Congressional investigation
pt. II. Nationalist ascendancy, 1781-1783. Counterrevolution in finance ; Reign of the financier ; The aristocracy suppressed
pt. III. Postwar era. Settlement of individual accounts ; Settlement of state accounts ; The economics of disunion ; Speculation in the public debt
pt. IV. National public finance. Funding : the people and the creditors ; Assumption : the compromise of 1790 ; The threads tied.