Andrew P Trout
Biographic Data
| ID | 1028084 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew P Trout |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew P |
| FAMILY NAME | Trout |
| SIGNATURE | TROUT A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Southeast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Alexander Hamilton, conversion, and debt reduction
Alexander Hamilton's Hidden Sinking Fund
I am half mad with a project which will give our supplies the effect almost of magic in the reduction of debt.1 Thus did prime minister William Pitt, in I783, express his undiluted enthusiasm for what had become a craze in public finance: the sinking fund. Introduced by the finance minister Robert Walpole in I 7 I 6 as a means to reduce the English national debt, the sinking fund had later lost prestige, for its existence had only encouraged poli…
Alexander Hamilton, "the Celebrated Mr. Neckar," and Public Credit
I N a season of bicentennial observances we should recall that i990 is the two-hundredth anniversary of a series of reports directed by Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the treasury, to the United States Congress and that these documents influenced considerably the course that the new nation would follow. The most important by far was the Report Relative to a Provision for the Support of Public Credit (submitted January I4, I790), for out of it e…
Alexander Hamilton's Tontine Proposal
T WHAT early American fiscal policymakers derived a good many ideas from England is beyond doubt. Obvious examples are Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton's funding system, sinking fund, and Bank of the United States. Less publicized is Hamilton's unrealized scheme to revive a curious sort of life annuity known as the tontine. The episode belies Hamilton's reputation as an advocate of perpetual government indebtedness; in fact, he envisi…
The Proclamation of the Treaty of Nijmegen
Under the Grand Monarchy, Frenchmen of the highest social ranksroyalty, princes of the blood, noblesse d'dpee-lived ceremoniously, guarded their prerogatives jealously, and were quick to dispute claims to precedence. Their attitudes and quarrels are too familiar to require elaboration. Less attention has been given to the pretensions of the bourgeoisie and the newer nobility. The behavior of les grands had its parallel in that, for example, of th…
Alexander Hamilton's Tontine Proposal
T WHAT early American fiscal policymakers derived a good many ideas from England is beyond doubt. Obvious examples are Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton's funding system, sinking fund, and Bank of the United States. Less publicized is Hamilton's unrealized scheme to revive a curious sort of life annuity known as the tontine. The episode belies Hamilton's reputation as an advocate of perpetual government indebtedness; in fact, he envisi…
Alexander Hamilton, conversion, and debt reduction
The Proclamation of the Treaty of Nijmegen
Under the Grand Monarchy, Frenchmen of the highest social ranksroyalty, princes of the blood, noblesse d'dpee-lived ceremoniously, guarded their prerogatives jealously, and were quick to dispute claims to precedence. Their attitudes and quarrels are too familiar to require elaboration. Less attention has been given to the pretensions of the bourgeoisie and the newer nobility. The behavior of les grands had its parallel in that, for example, of th…
Alexander Hamilton's Tontine Proposal
T WHAT early American fiscal policymakers derived a good many ideas from England is beyond doubt. Obvious examples are Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton's funding system, sinking fund, and Bank of the United States. Less publicized is Hamilton's unrealized scheme to revive a curious sort of life annuity known as the tontine. The episode belies Hamilton's reputation as an advocate of perpetual government indebtedness; in fact, he envisi…
Alexander Hamilton, "the Celebrated Mr. Neckar," and Public Credit
I N a season of bicentennial observances we should recall that i990 is the two-hundredth anniversary of a series of reports directed by Alexander Hamilton, secretary of the treasury, to the United States Congress and that these documents influenced considerably the course that the new nation would follow. The most important by far was the Report Relative to a Provision for the Support of Public Credit (submitted January I4, I790), for out of it e…
Alexander Hamilton, conversion, and debt reduction
Alexander Hamilton's Hidden Sinking Fund
I am half mad with a project which will give our supplies the effect almost of magic in the reduction of debt.1 Thus did prime minister William Pitt, in I783, express his undiluted enthusiasm for what had become a craze in public finance: the sinking fund. Introduced by the finance minister Robert Walpole in I 7 I 6 as a means to reduce the English national debt, the sinking fund had later lost prestige, for its existence had only encouraged poli…
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