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The emergence of capitalism in early America /Christopher W. Calvo.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, (c)2020.Description: 1 online resource (x, 296 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813057446
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HC105 .E447 2020
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Laissez-faire in the American Tradition -- Progress and Poverty: Malthus and Ricardo in America -- The Crisis of Free Society: The Southern and Northern Reactionaries -- An American Political Economy -- Henry Carey, Nature, and the Destiny of Man -- Liberalism, Republicanism, and Finance -- Conclusion: The Old and the New in American Economics
Subject: "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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Includes bibliographies and index.

Capitalism and Antebellum Economic Thought -- Laissez-faire in the American Tradition -- Progress and Poverty: Malthus and Ricardo in America -- The Crisis of Free Society: The Southern and Northern Reactionaries -- An American Political Economy -- Henry Carey, Nature, and the Destiny of Man -- Liberalism, Republicanism, and Finance -- Conclusion: The Old and the New in American Economics

"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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