Radical Hamilton: economic lessons from a misunderstood founder

Do we know Hamilton?

Cometh the hour, cometh the man

The supply effort, from grand forage to manufacturing

"The badness of the money" : inflation and war

Military mutiny and the critical period

Postwar depression

Challenging the weak state : frontier secessionists, maroons, and Native Americans

Shays's Rebellion : culmination of crisis

The Constitution as reaction to crisis

A dirigiste interpretation of the Constitution

Public debt as central power

A bank uniting sword and purse

The report

Small-government apocalypse : tax cuts, austerity, and enemy invasion

The report's long impact.