Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s

摘要

The Tea Party movement in the US combined nostalgic fervor for the country's founding fathers with anger at the continued economic malaise after the financial crisis of 2007-8. In 2009, Professors Douglas Irwin and Richard Sylla presided over a National Bureau of Economic Research Conference held at Dartmouth College in which leading American scholars examined the economic policy issues that confronted the founding fathers during the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and how they responded.