Radical Hamilton Economic Lessons From a Misunderstood Founder

"This book explains Hamilton's radical ideas in the context of his revolutionary times and in contrast to other revolutionaries, such as Thomas Jefferson, who emerges as the epitome of rural, slave-owning, anti-statist thinkers. This is a book of scholarship, with hundreds of notes and explanations of early American economics and history, but written in a stylish, accessible, narrative style befitting a leading, longtime journalist"--

About the author

Christian Parenti is associate professor of economics at John Jay College, City University of New York (CUNY) and the author of Lockdown America, The Soft Cage, and Tropic of Chaos, among others. He has written for Fortune, Mother Jones, Conde Nast Traveler, Playboy, the New York Times, and the London Review of Books, among others.

Summary

A dramatic re-evaluation of the founding of the United States and the history of capitalism.

Product details

• Authors: Christian Parenti, Parenti Christian
• Publisher: Verso
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 31.08.2020
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
• EAN: 9781786633927
• ISBN: 978-1-78663-392-7
• Pages: 304
• Subjects: Hamilton, Planning, Political Science, American History, Economics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Thomas Jefferson, Social & cultural history, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), federal reserve, Economic history, American Revolution, Socialism, Government, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Social and cultural history, Debt, History of the Americas, Federalists, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery, founding fathers, Colonial America, state and society, Free markets, American capitalism, American economic history, Revolutionary America, Hamilton musical, American Revolutionary History, federalists and anti-federalists, American Political Science, Freakenomics, government and economics, state and economy, American development, developmental history, Adam Smith Founding FATHERS, Federalists and Republicans, The People's Republic of Walmart