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The economic history of the United States spans the colonial era through the 21st century. The initial settlements depended on agriculture and hunting/trapping, later adding international trade, manufacturing, and finally, services, to the point where agriculture represented less than 2% of GDP .
Alexander Hamilton, a portrait by William J. Weaver now housed in the U.S. Department of State. In United States history, the Hamiltonian economic program was the set of measures that were proposed by American Founding Father and first Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in four notable reports and implemented by Congress during George Washington's first term.
The report analyzed the financial standing of the United States and made recommendations to reorganize the national debt and to establish the public credit. [2] Commissioned by the US House of Representatives on September 21, 1789, the report was presented on January 9, 1790, [ 3 ] at the second session of the 1st US Congress .
History of agriculture in the United States; American decline; American Fur Company; American School (economics) American System (economic plan) American urban history; Anchor Line (riverboat company) Andrew Jackson 1828 presidential campaign; Anglo-American loan
The Chicago Plan was a comprehensive plan to reform the monetary and banking systems in the United States introduced by University of Chicago economists in 1933. The Great Depression had been caused in part by excessive private bank lending, so the plan proposed to eliminate private bank money creation through fractional reserve lending.
A Financial History of the United States. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 0-7656-0730-1. Marrs, Jim (2000). "Secrets of Money and the Federal Reserve System". Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids. New York: HarperCollins. pp. 64–78. Martin, Justin (2000).
Long's plans for the "Share Our Wealth" program attracted much criticism from economists at the time, who stated that Long's plans for redistributing wealth would not result in every American family receiving a grant of $5,000 per year, but rather $400/per year, and that his plans for taxation would cap the average annual income at about $3,000.
The United States government has tended to spend more money than it takes in, indicated by a national debt that was close to $1 billion at the beginning of the 20th century. The budget for most of the 20th century followed a pattern of deficits during wartime and economic crises, and surpluses during periods of peacetime economic expansion.