Alexander Hamilton, first Treasury Secretary of the United States, comes off as quite the savvy guy in this story. He was self-autodi... he was also an auto-didact of economics and finance and public finance. The thing that I like pitting him against these people no one's ever heard of is they haven't common the idea that the economic nation kind of is the nation.
Astra Taylor interviews William Hogeland on his book Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation. Hogeland recovers a fascinating crop of mostly-forgotten rebels, the movements they led, and their radical demands that put the landlords and lenders of their day on edge. He also recounts the complex and sometimes deadly machinations that went into suppressing them in order to create a nation that was safe for the owning and investing classes.
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