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Southern Economics

Industrialization and the Survival of the Peculiar Institution

By James (Jim) Pederson

Coming out of the American Revolution, the nation faced a slave problem that most today could scarcely imagine and that was unemployment. The Slave labor force had grown from reproduction and from importing of slaves… »

  • James Pederson
  • Slavery
  • Southern Economics
  • Southern History

Who Owns America Now?

By John Devanny

From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on “Who Owns America?” October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston, SC.

  • John Devanny
  • New South
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  • Who Owns America

The Postbellum South as an Exploited Colony

By Philip Leigh

From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on “Who Owns America?” October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston, SC.

  • New South
  • Philip Leigh
  • Reconstruction
  • Southern Economics
  • Who Owns America

Agrarianism, Republicanism, and Laissez Faire

By Joseph R. Stromberg

From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on “Who Owns America?” October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston, SC.

  • Agrarianism
  • I'll Take My Stand
  • Joseph R. Stromberg
  • Southern Economics
  • Southern Tradition
  • Who Owns America

Who Owns America? Populism, Political Economy, and Corporate Personality

By Jack Trotter

From the 2020 Abbeville Institute conference on “Who Owns America?” October 16-17, 2020 in Charleston, SC.

  • Agrarianism
  • Jack Trotter
  • Southern Economics
  • Southern Tradition
  • Who Owns America

Industrial Combinations

By Robert Lewis Dabney

From The Land We Love, V, no. I (May 1868), 25-34, edited by Joseph S. Stromberg. Combinations for the prosecution of industrial pursuits are the characteristic of our age. They now enjoy almost universal favor,… »

  • Joseph R. Stromberg
  • Robert Lewis Dabney
  • Southern Economics
  • Southern History
  • Southern Tradition

The Economy, Stupid

By John Marquardt

Just as the Earth revolves on its axis each day and travels around the Sun in an equally regular pattern, so has world history tended to be cyclical in nature throughout the centuries, with many… »

  • Abraham Lincoln
  • John Marquardt
  • Northern Studies
  • Racism
  • Slavery
  • Southern Economics
  • War for Southern Independence

Southern Anticolonialism

By Joseph R. Stromberg

A review of Burden of Dependency: Colonial Themes in Southern Economic Thought (Johns Hopkins, 1992) by Joseph Persky An Under-Appreciated Book In 1973, the young economist Joseph J. Persky wrote piece in Southern Exposure with… »

  • Agrarianism
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  • Featured
  • Joseph Persky
  • Joseph R. Stromberg
  • Southern Economics
  • Southern Tradition

New South Voices of the Southern Tradition

By Brion McClanahan

Presented at the 2017 Abbeville Institute Summer School. As scholars dedicated to exploring what is true and valuable in the Southern tradition, we are most often drawn to the antebellum South and the early federal… »

  • Brion McClanahan
  • Eugene Genovese
  • I'll Take My Stand
  • New South
  • Richard M. Weaver
  • Southern Economics
  • Southern Lit
  • Southern Politics
  • Southern Tradition

Robert Lewis Dabney and the New South Creed

By Boyd Cathey

Only a few prominent Southerners actively questioned the call for the rapid industrialization of the South or pointed to the broader implications involved in such a policy after the Confederacy’s defeat in 1865. Of those… »

  • Boyd Cathey
  • New South
  • Robert Lewis Dabney
  • Southern Economics

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