Forrest McDonald on the Economics of the Founding and on the Decline of American Federalism

History

Forrest McDonald on the Economics of the Founding and on the Decline of American Federalism

ABSTRACT

This conference examined the writings of Forrest McDonald on two subjects he wrote about extensively: economics in the early Republic, and the importance of states’ rights and its decline.

READING LIST

Conference Readings

McDonald, Forrest. We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1992.

McDonald, Forrest. "The Founding Fathers and the Economic Order." Economic Club of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, April 19, 2006.

McDonald, Forrest. States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876. Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2000.

McDonald, Forrest and Ellen Shapiro McDonald. Requiem: Variations on Eighteenth-Century Themes. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1988.