For October 8

October 7, 2009 | by brianmurphy | Leave a Comment

Hamilton, Report on Public Credit

Philadelphia Merchants Petition

Brian Phillips Murphy, “‘A very convenient instrument’: The Manhattan Company, Aaron Burr, and the Election of 1800,” The William and Mary Quarterly, April 2008.

Revised Reading Schedule

September 21, 2009 | by brianmurphy | 1 Comment

As promised, here’s the revised reading schedule for the rest of the semester.

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Law and Society Review article

Pauline Maier, “The Revolutionary Origins of the American Corporation,” The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 50, No. 1, Law and Society in Early America (Jan., 1993), pp. 51-8.

 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2947236

Federalist No. 10

http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm

The U.S. Constitution

http://www.constitution.org/constit_.htm

NPR Planet Money

September 10, 2009 | by brianmurphy | Leave a Comment

As promised, here’s a link to NPR’s Planet Money. Be sure to also check out the This American Life episode about the housing crisis.

You can find it – and listen to it on the website – here.

As promised, here are the links for September 8:

Ann M. Carlos and Stephen Nicholas, “‘Giants of an Earlier Capitalism’: The Chartered Trading Companies as Modern Multinationals” Business History Review, Vol. 62, No. 3 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 398-419

 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3115542

Ann M. Carlos and Stephen Nicholas, “Theory and History: Seventeenth-Century Joint-Stock Chartered Trading Companies” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 56, No. 4 (Dec., 1996), pp. 916-924

 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2123515

For September 10, we will instead do the readings originally assigned for September 8.

READINGS

*Kenneth L. Sokoloff and Stanley L. Engerman, “History Lessons: Institutions, Factors Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World,” The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Summer, 2000), pp. 217-232.

*Sigmund Diamond, “From Organization to Society: Virginia in the Seventeenth Century” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 63, No. 5. (Mar., 1958), pp. 457-475.

Syllabus

September 1, 2009 | by brianmurphy | Leave a Comment

The syllabus is available by clicking “Syllabus” on the toolbar at the top of this page.


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