Richard Sylla is an economist specializing in economic, business, and financial history. From 1990 to 2015 he was Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets and Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business, New York University, where he is now Professor Emeritus of Economics. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Cliometric Society. His awards include grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Citibank Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Business History Conference Lifetime Achievement Award. He has served as president of the Economic History Association and the Business History Conference. Since 2010 he has been chairman of the board of trustees of the Museum of American Finance, a Smithsonian affiliate located in New York City. During 2015-16 he was a national Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar. Sylla's lifelong study of the career of Alexander Hamilton led to his most recent book, a concise and lavishly illustration biography of the soldier, lawyer, statesman, and financier who arguably did as much as anyone to create the United States and launch it on its path to modernity. Lord Bryce, a British scholar and politician, more than a century ago said of Hamilton that Americans never, in his lifetime or afterwards, fully appreciated "his splendid gifts." More recently a historian described Hamilton as both the most important and least loved of the founding fathers. Thanks to Lin-Manuel Miranda's hit musical, "Hamilton," the long neglect and marginalization of Hamilton by American historians is giving way to renewed interest in what he stood for and accomplished in a short life that began in poverty and ended in tragedy. Sylla and his wife, Edith, a historian of science, live and work in Hopkinton, NH, and New York City.
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