States believed they could have different laws that the federal government didn’t approve of, the states found different ways to make money so they didn’t have to lose too much money on the relief fund of the American revolution. Most of the governors of these states were presidential candidates
The answer is the society.
Economics is focused on the problem of the society which is created by a world with limited resources and people with unlimited needs and wants.
He was a personal Physician for the Earl Shaftesbury.