How did Hamilton's and Jefferson's economic policies differ?

Hamilton belived in the educated buisnessperson, and Jefferson belived in the everyday American to make descisions

Jefferson thought that "Those who labor in the earth are God's chosen people..." So he thought that the nations well being would depend on farmers, not on banks, merchants, and business. Hamilton...

Alexander Hamilton thought that the new federal government should accept the debts of the Confederation Congress at their full value. :)

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Agrarianism. Essentially that the citizens of the new country were to grow their own food and sell the rest for profit. They were also supposed to make all their own clothes. He believed in...