Books by Thomas K. McCraw

I loved his Schumpeter biography , and he had a long and distinguished career as an economic and business historian at Harvard.  Here are previous MR posts on McCraw .  Here is an obituary .

Thomas K. McCraw, The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy .

This book is academic substance, beginning to end, and for that reason it won’t be a fun read to everybody.  But with that caveat, and noting the $60.00 purchase price, it joins my list ( Sacred Games , The Savage Detectives , Prophet of Innovation ) of must-reads for the year.