Saturday, January 17, 2015

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
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2 comments:

Dan Lynch said...

Also Lincoln's economist Henry Carey:

Henry Carey

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.