Hamiltonism

Hamiltonism

English

Etymology

Hamilton +‎ -ism

Noun

Hamiltonism (uncountable)

1. The economic policy attributed to Alexander Hamilton.
   • 1954, L. M. Hacker, “The Anticapitalist Bias of American Historians,” in Capitalism and the Historians, Friedrich A Hayek ed.

     Politically, to these leveling historians, Hamiltonism was evil; and by the same token a moral and not an economic judgment is passed on his extraordinary achievements.

   • 2000, Thomas Fleming, Duel‎:

     As days passed and Chief Justice Lewis said nothing about it, Kent and his convert to Hamiltonism, Judge Smith Thompson, grew uneasy.

   • 2004, Theodore Sky, To Provide for the General Welfare,‎:

     Political reaction to the message varied. Purist Jeffersonians attacked it as a reversion to Hamiltonism and as moving in a direction of enhanced federal power.