In a period of economic depression and land seizures for debt collection, over two hundred farmers led by Daniel Shays (1747–1825), marched on the state supreme court in Springfield, Massachusetts, preventing it from carrying out foreclosures and debt collection. Shays then led about 1,200 men in an attack on the nearby federal arsenal, but they were repulsed by troops under Benjamin Lincoln. As a result of the uprising, the state enacted laws easing the economic condition of debtors.
Irving Fisher, The Theory of Interest, as determined by Impatience to Spend Income and Opportunity to Invest it [1930]. The book is available online
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