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The Emergence of Capitalism in Early America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2020Copyright date: ©2023Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (309 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813057446
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Emergence of Capitalism in Early AmericaDDC classification:
  • 330.97305
LOC classification:
  • HC105 .C225
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- The Emergence of Capitalism in Early America -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Introduction: Capitalism and Antebellum Thought -- 2. Laissez-Faire in the American Tradition -- 3. Progress and Poverty: Malthus and Ricardo in America -- 4. The Crisis of Free Society: The Southern and Northern Reactionaries -- 5. An American Political Economy -- 6. Henry Carey, Nature, and the Destiny of Man -- 7. Liberalism, Republicanism, and Finance -- 8. Conclusion: The Old and the New in American Economics -- NOTES -- INDEX.
Summary: Contesting the assumption that early American economists were committed to Adam Smith's ideas of free trade and small government, this book provides a comprehensive history of the nation's economic thought from 1790 to 1860, tracing the development of a uniquely American understanding of capitalism.
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Cover -- The Emergence of Capitalism in Early America -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Introduction: Capitalism and Antebellum Thought -- 2. Laissez-Faire in the American Tradition -- 3. Progress and Poverty: Malthus and Ricardo in America -- 4. The Crisis of Free Society: The Southern and Northern Reactionaries -- 5. An American Political Economy -- 6. Henry Carey, Nature, and the Destiny of Man -- 7. Liberalism, Republicanism, and Finance -- 8. Conclusion: The Old and the New in American Economics -- NOTES -- INDEX.

Contesting the assumption that early American economists were committed to Adam Smith's ideas of free trade and small government, this book provides a comprehensive history of the nation's economic thought from 1790 to 1860, tracing the development of a uniquely American understanding of capitalism.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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