In september 1789 George Washington appointed Alexander Hamilton as America's first ever treasury secretary. Two years later Hamilton presented Congress with a "Report on Manufactures", his plan to get theyoung country's economy going and provide the underpinnings for its hard-foughtindependence. Hamilton had no time for Adam Smith's ideas about the hidden hand. America needed to protect its infant industries with tariffs if it wanted toseethemgrowup.
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