Freedom of debt: the lessons of government finance before the Civil War -- A thousand dollar breakfast: the limits of war financing by elites -- Patriotism and profit: Jay Cooke and the democratization of debt -- The sale of American stocks constitutes the chief business at the Bourse: foreign...

Introduction -- Early twentieth-century origins of American finance: the rise of the American corporation and the creation of the Federal Reserve System -- Early twentieth-century American economic and financial theory -- Statistics in America and the governance of the modern state -- American...