Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich

by Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen

When you think of the founding fathers, you think of men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin--exceptional minds and matchless statesmen who led the colonies to a seemingly impossible victory over the British and established the constitutional and legal framework for our democratic government. But the American Revolution was about far more than freedom and liberty. It was about economics as well.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226910687
• ISBN13: 9780226910680
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent history of forgotten roots

Economists and citizens need to read this book! It's chapter on the financial crisis of 1837 saved me millions of $ in 2007 and 2008. Read this book and you'll have a much better appreciation of financial systems, in both their strengths and weaknesses. Adding to the economic history, the book weaves in the personal histories of the founders. Quirky and eccentric, they, like Hamilton, somehow washed up on the shores of what was to be the United States--and they and their ideas prospered. These distinct and eccentric founders built a new system. How did they do it? The book lends great insight into the distinct country that was the United States. People everywhere must have dreams, but in the U.S. a financial system developed to fund those dreams. Let's hope we still have remnants of the liberty in that early U.S. and people somewhere like those early founders.