Introduction : banking in the nation's largest slave market -- Part I. Financing southwestern expansion through the 1810s. The limits of early bank financing of slavery -- Adapting slave financing to the needs of the frontier South during the nation's first boom and bust -- Part II. Financing an...

This book - the first of two volumes- looks at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective. Each chapter discusses citizens, special interests, and government officials responding to economic incentives in both markets and politics. In doing so, the book provides fresh...