Profiles

Monetary inflation helped bring on the Terror and set French progress back a generation.

Sumner was the product of an indigenous American hard-money tradition that embraced free markets, free trade, and sound banking

Pioneering sociologist William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) was a prolific and astute historian of the early American republic. His work is informed by both his classical liberalism and his understanding of economics. He authored eight major works including major biographies and thematic studies...

Jefferson believed that peaceful coercion was the perfect republican solution to the worsening commercial crisis.

"Jefferson described the new judicial establishment as 'a parasitical plant engrafted at the last session on the judiciary body'."