Jonathan Larson — Peter Cooper on bankers in government ~ Mike Norman Economics

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Jonathan Larson — Peter Cooper on bankers in government

Peter Cooper (1791-1883) put Abraham Lincoln onto greenbacks, with which he funded the Civil War through issuance of Treasury notes.

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Peter Cooper on bankers in government

Jonathan Larson

2 comments:

Dan Lynch said...: Also Lincoln's economist Henry Carey:

Henry Carey; January 18, 2015 at 11:10 AM
Jonathan Larson said...: Yes, Carey too!

Just think about how clearly folks imagined society back before Samuelson's text screwed up everyone's notions of what economics was.; January 18, 2015 at 1:44 PM

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