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Alexander Hamilton
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As treasury secretary, he wanted to make room for entrepreneurs, whom he regarded as the motive force of the economy. Like Franklin,he intuited America’s special genius for business: “As to whatever may depend on enterprise, we need not fear to be outdone by any people on earth. It may almost be said that enterprise is our element.”
-- Ron Chernow, “Alexander Hamilton”
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Well, they did have to create and build a nation. Questions of distributive justice may not have been quite ripe yet.
As treasury secretary, he wanted to make room for entrepreneurs, whom he regarded as the motive force of the economy. Like Franklin,he intuited America’s special genius for business: “As to whatever may depend on enterprise, we need not fear to be outdone by any people on earth. It may almost be said that enterprise is our element.”
-- Ron Chernow, “Alexander Hamilton”
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Well, they did have to create and build a nation. Questions of distributive justice may not have been quite ripe yet.
