Hamiltonism

From Fresh Dictionary

English

Noun

Hamiltonism

1. The economic policy attributed to Alexander Hamilton.

Quotations

• 1954, L. M. Hacker, “The Anticapitalist Bias of American Historians,” in Capitalism and the Historians, Friedrich A Hayek ed. [1]

  Politically, to these leveling historians, Hamiltonism was evil; and by the same token a moral and not an economic judgment is passed on his extraordinary achievements.

• 2000, Thomas Fleming, Duel [2]

  As days passed and Chief Justice Lewis said nothing about it, Kent and his convert to Hamiltonism, Judge Smith Thompson, grew uneasy.

• 2004, Theodore Sky, To Provide for the General Welfare, [3]

  Political reaction to the message varied. Purist Jeffersonians attacked it as a reversion to Hamiltonism and as moving in a direction of enhanced federal power.