The entrepreneurial spirit in colonial America : the foundations of modern business history -- "Introduction" to American public finance and financial service, 1700-1815 -- Conflicting views on fiat currency : Britain and its North American colonies in the eighteenth century -- Madison's debt...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- I. Population and Economic Growth -- II. Foreign Trade -- SECTION ONE: Occupational Groups -- Introduction -- III. Farmers and Planters -- IV. Indentured Servants and Slaves -- V. Artisans and Merchants -- VI. Women in the Colonial Economy -- SECTION TWO:...