The Emergence of a National Economy Vol 2: The United States from Independence to the Civil War

William J. Barber, Marianne Johnson, Malcolm Rutherford

VOLUME II Creating a National System of Taxation John Jay, A Circular Letter from the Congress of the United States of America to Their Constituents (1779) Pelatiah Webster, A Sixth Essay on Free Trade and Finance (1783) Samuel Wales, The Dangers of Our National Prosperity (1785) Fisher Ames, Letters to George Richards Minot and to Christopher Gore Fisher Ames, Letter to George Richards Minot ([1789] 1854) Fisher Ames, Excerpt of a Letter to George Richards Minot ([1790] 1854) Fisher Ames, Letter to Christopher Gore ([1797] 1854) Fisher Ames, ‘Speech on Mr. Madison’s Resolutions’ ([1794] 1854) George Logan, Fourteen Experiments on Agriculture (1791) James Thomson Callender, A Short History of the Nature and Consequences of Excise Laws (1795) James Swan, National Arithmetick (1786) John Woolman, ‘A Plea for the Poor’ ([1793] 1922) Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice Opposed to Agrarian Law and to Agrarian Monopoly (1797)

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