Roundtable on Hamilton and Finance

The Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society is pleased to invite you to a virtual roundtable on Alexander Hamilton and Finance. This event will be free (with registration) and will bring together leading scholars whose work has fundamentally shaped our understanding of Hamilton’s financial vision and its enduring legacy. We are honored to host as our invited experts:

Richard E. Sylla: Professor Emeritus of Economics and former Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets at NYU Stern School of Business; Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; Chairman of the Museum of American Finance. Sylla is co‐editor of Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and Debt, among many other works exploring the foundations of monetary policy, banking, public credit, and the development of early U.S. financial systems. Sylla is a board member of The Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society.

Robert E. Wright: Economic historian, currently the Rudy and Marilyn Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana University; formerly on the faculty of NYU Stern and at other institutions. Wright is author of Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American Republic, Origins of Commercial Banking in America, 1750-1800, Wealth of Nations Rediscovered, among many others. His scholarship illuminates how early American financial institutions, public debt, banking, and markets shaped the trajectory of the Republic.

Michael E. Newton: Historian specializing in the American Revolution and the Founding Era. Newton is author of Alexander Hamilton: The Formative Years, Discovering Hamilton, The Path to Tyranny, among others, and lectures regularly on Hamilton’s life, ideas, and influence. He is widely regarded as a foremost authority on Hamilton’s early development and the political‐economic context in which his ideas emerged.

We hope you will join us in this spirited and informed discussion. Their combined expertise will offer rich insight into Hamilton’s financial statecraft: the architecture of early American public credit, banking, currency, and governmental finance.