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• Finance, Public -- United States
• United States -- History -- 1789-1801

• Finance, Public -- United States -- 1789-1800

• The Works of Alexander Hamilton (Constitutional edition, 12 volumes; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, ca. 1903), by Alexander Hamilton, ed. by Henry Cabot Lodge
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (mislabeled as 8): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII: multiple formats at archive.org
• Political essays on the nature and operation of money, public finances, and other subjects: published during the American war, and continued up to the present year, 1791. / By Pelatiah Webster, A.M. (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, no. 91, High Street., MDCCXCI. [1791]), by Pelatiah Webster (HTML at Evans TCP)

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• Financial Catechism and History of the Financial Legislation of the United States, From 1862 to 1882 (Chicago: Franklin printing co., 1882), by S. M. Brice (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Resource of War: The Credit of the Government Made Immediately Available: History of the Legal Tender Paper Money Issued During the Great Rebellion, Being a Loan Without Interest and a National Currency (Buffalo: Express Printing Co., 1869), by E. G. Spaulding (page images at MOA)
• A Critical Examination of Our Financial Policy During the Southern Rebellion, by Simon Newcomb (page images at MOA)

• A Populist Humbug Exploded: Refutation of the Alleged "Seven Financial Conspiracies"; Incurring and Paying the War Debt; Creating and Redeeming the Greenback; Where We Stood and Where We Stand; Fact Against Fiction (ca. 1896), by J. W. Babcock
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• American Public Finance and Financial Services, 1700-1815 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1994), by Edwin J. Perkins (PDF at Ohio State)

• Government Ownership of Railroads, and War Taxation, by Otto H. Kahn (Gutenberg ebook)

• Considerations on the subject of finance. In which the causes of the depreciation of the bills of credit emitted by Congress are briefly stated and examined, and a plan proposed for restoring money to a certain, known value. ([Philadelphia? : Printed by John Dunlap?, 1779?]) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An essay on free trade and finance, humbly offered to the consideration of the public. / By a citizen of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Thomas Bradford, at the Coffee-House., M.DCC.LXXIX. [1779]), by Pelatiah Webster (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A fourth essay on free trade and finance, humbly offered to the consideration of the public. / By a citizen of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Hall and Sellers, opposite the Jersey Market., MDCCLXXX. [1780]), by Pelatiah Webster (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Political essays on the nature and operation of money, public finances, and other subjects: published during the American war, and continued up to the present year, 1791. / By Pelatiah Webster, A.M. (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, no. 91, High Street., MDCCXCI. [1791]), by Pelatiah Webster (HTML at Evans TCP)

• The New Tax Law of Indiana and the Science of Taxation: A Series of Letters Published in the Indianapolis Sentinel, August 14, 1891 to April 20, 1892, With Statistical Appendices (Indianapolis: Indianapolis Print. Co, 1892), by Jacob Piatt Dunn (multiple formats at Indiana)

• History of Taxation in Rhode Island to the Year 1790, by Henry B. Gardner (Gutenberg ebook)

• Measuring the Government Sector of the U.S. Economic Accounts (1998), ed. by Courtenay Slater and Martin H. David (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances, by United States Department of the Treasury (full serial archives)

• Speech of Hon. Joseph Baily, of Pennsylvania, on the bill for the issuing of additional treasury notes, delivered in the House of Representatives, June 18, 1862. (Washington, D.C., Scammell & Co., printers, 1862), by Joseph Baily (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Introduction to State and Local Public Finance (c2000), by Thomas A. Garrett and John C. Leatherman (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)

• The Deficit and the Public Interest: The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Joseph White and Aaron B. Wildavsky (HTML at UC Press)
• The Magic Mountain: A Guide to Defining and Using a Budget Surplus (Washington: AEI Press, 1999), by Kevin A. Hassett and R. Glenn Hubbard (PDF with commentary at AEI)
• The Politics of Defence Budgeting: A Study of Organisation and Resource Allocation in the United Kingdom and the United States (Washington: National Defense University Press, 1983), by Michael D. Hobkirk (PDF at dtic.mil)
• To the people of Suffolk, of all parties. (New-York, Printed for the author, by Craighead & Allen, 1838), by William Jagger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reacting to the Spending Spree: Policy Changes We Can Afford (delisted 5 Dec 2022; free online edition withdrawn by Hoover), ed. by Terry L. Anderson and Richard Sousa
• The Magic Mountain: A Guide to Defining and Using a Budget Surplus (Washington: AEI Press, 1999), by Kevin A. Hassett and R. Glenn Hubbard (PDF with commentary at AEI)
• Democracy in Deficit: The Political Legacy of Lord Keynes, by James M. Buchanan and Richard E. Wagner (frame-dependent HTML at econlib.org)
• Taking a Stand on Our National Debt, by Helen P. Rogers (Javascript-dependent HTML at Scribd)
• Who Pays Under Wilson? Who'd Pay Under Cox? (1920), by Republican National Committee (U.S.) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Tax Expenditures: The Hidden Entitlements (second edition; Washington: Citizens for Tax Justice, 1996), by Robert S. McIntyre (HTML and PDF at ctj.org)
• The Deficit and the Public Interest: The Search for Responsible Budgeting in the 1980s (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Joseph White and Aaron B. Wildavsky (HTML at UC Press)

• American Domestic Priorities: An Economic Appraisal (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), ed. by John M. Quigley and Daniel L. Rubinfeld (HTML at UC Press)
• An Introduction to State and Local Public Finance (c2000), by Thomas A. Garrett and John C. Leatherman (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)

• An Introduction to State and Local Public Finance (c2000), by Thomas A. Garrett and John C. Leatherman (PDF with commentary at wvu.edu)
• Local Fiscal Effects of Illegal Immigration: Report of a Workshop (1996), ed. by Barry Edmonston and Ronald Demos Lee (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Financing State and Local Economic Development (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1983), ed. by Michael Barker, contrib. by Robert N. Wise, Belden Hull Daniels, Lawrence Litvak, Michael Kieschnick, and Derek Hansen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tax Policy and the Economy: A Debate Between Michael Harrington and Representative Jack Kemp, April 25, 1979 (New York: Institute for Democratic Socialism, ca. 1979), by Michael Harrington and Jack Kemp (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Federal Mafia (revised third edition; Las Vegas: Freedom Books, c1999), by Irwin A. Schiff (PDF at paynoincometax.com; 32 MB)
• Taxing Consumption in a Global Economy (Washington: AEI Press, 1997), by Harry Grubert and Timothy Scott Newlon (PDF with commentary at AEI)
• The Dwindling Dollars of Zeno Zollars (Belleville, NJ: Popular Economics Pub. Co., c1938), by William Henry Wisner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tax Expenditures: The Hidden Entitlements (second edition; Washington: Citizens for Tax Justice, 1996), by Robert S. McIntyre (HTML and PDF at ctj.org)
• Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies, For the Purpose of Raising a Revenue, by Act of Parliament (New York: Reprinted by J. Holt, 1765), by Daniel Dulany (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Who Pays Under Wilson? Who'd Pay Under Cox? (1920), by Republican National Committee (U.S.) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The first horror of the war, (New York city, The Anti-socialist press, c1918), by Solomon Adam Lewinsohn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An Address to the people called Quakers, concerning the manner in which they treated Timothy Davis, for writing and publishing a piece on taxation; and also concerning the treatment many others met with from them, for joining with him, since he was disowned, in the acts of public worship. / Signed in behalf of the committee who prepared this address, by Joseph Taber. (Boston: : Printed by T. and J. Fleet,, 1784), by Joseph Taber (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Considerations on the propriety of imposing taxes in the British colonies, for the purpose of raising a revenue, by act of Parliament. : [Two lines of Latin quotation with two lines of translation] ([New York] : North-America: printed by a North-American. New-York: re-printed by John Holt,, in the year 1765), by Daniel Dulany (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Reasons why the British colonies, in America, should not be charged with internal taxes, by authority of Parliament; humbly offered, for consideration, in behalf of the colony of Connecticut. (New-Haven: : Printed by B. Mecom., M,DCC,LXIV. [1764]), by Thomas Fitch (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Some reasons that influenced the governor to take, and the councillors to administer the oath, required by the act of Parliament; commonly called the Stamp-act. Humbly submitted to the consideration of the publick. (Hartford: : Printed and sold by Thomas Green., [1766]), by Thomas Fitch (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A serious address to such of the people called Quakers, on the continent of North-America, as profess scruples relative to the present government: exhibiting the ancient real testimony of that people, concerning obedience to civil authority. : Written before the departure of the British army from Philadelphia, 1778. / By a native of Pennsylvania. ; To which are added, for the information of all rational enquirers, an appendix, consisting of extracts from an essay concerning obedience to the supreme powers, and the duty of subjects in all revolutions, published in England soon after the Revolution of 1688. (Philadelphia: : Printed by R. Bell, next door to St. Paul's Church, Third Street., M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]), by Isaac Grey and Matthew Tindall (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Observations on several acts of Parliament, passed in the 4th, 6th and 7th years of His present Majesty's reign: and also, on the conduct of the officers of the customs, since those acts were passed, and the Board of Commissioners appointed to reside in America. : Published by the merchants of Boston. ([Boston] : Printed by Edes & Gill,, M,DCC,LXIX. [1769]) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The crisis extraordinary. (Philadelphia: : Sold by William Harris in Second-Street, five doors below Market Street. (Price four dollars single, or thirty six dollars the dozen.), [1780]), by Thomas Paine (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Reasons against the renewal of the sugar act, as it will be prejudicial to the trade, not only of the northern colonies, but to that of Great-Britain also. (Province of the Massachusetts-Bay. Boston: N.E. : Printed for Thomas Leverett, in Cornhill., MDCCLXIV. [1764]) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• An essay on free trade and finance, humbly offered to the consideration of the public. / By a citizen of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Thomas Bradford, at the Coffee-House., M.DCC.LXXIX. [1779]), by Pelatiah Webster (HTML at Evans TCP)
• A fourth essay on free trade and finance, humbly offered to the consideration of the public. / By a citizen of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Hall and Sellers, opposite the Jersey Market., MDCCLXXX. [1780]), by Pelatiah Webster (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Letters from Sylvius to the freemen inhabitants of the United States. Containing some remarks on the scarcity of money; paper currency; national dress; foreign luxuries; the foederal debt; and public taxes. (New-York: : Printed by Carroll & Patterson, no. 16, Water-Street., M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]), by Hugh Williamson (HTML at Evans TCP)

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