The Emergence of a National Economy Vol 1: The United States from Independence to the Civil War

William J. Barber, Marianne Johnson, Malcolm Rutherford

VOLUME I Organization of the National Economy General Introduction, From Independence to the Civil War Note on Copy-Texts Thomas Jefferson, ‘The Present State of Manufactures, Commerce, Interior and Exterior Trade’ (1785) Tench Coxe, An Enquiry into the Principles on Which a Commercial System for the United States of America Should be Founded (1787) Tench Coxe, An Address to an Assembly of the Friends of American Manufactures (1787) Alexander Hamilton, Report on Manufactures (1791) Tench Coxe, ‘Reflections on the State of the Union’ (1795) George Logan, An Address on the Natural and Social Order of the World (1798) George Logan, A Letter to the Citizens of Pennsylvania on the Necessity of Promoting Agriculture, Manufactures, and the Useful Arts (1800) Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Benjamin Austin ([1816] 1903)

This collection brings together a comprehensive selection of documents from the history of US and Canadian economic thought from the 17th century through to 1900