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Southern Economics

Yankee Finance Capitalism Part II: The Jeffersonian Triumph

By John Devanny

“The revenue of the state is the state.” Edmund Burke The rise of the modern nation state in the 1600s was founded upon monarchies securing independent sources of revenue to pay for the royal armies… »

  • Alexander Hamilton
  • John Devanny
  • Southern Economics

Was the South Poor Before the War?

By William Cawthon

This essay was written in 1982 under the direction of Emory Thomas at the University of Georgia and was originally titled, “The Affluent Section: The South on the Eve of the War Between the States.”… »

  • Abolitionists
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  • War for Southern Independence
  • William Cawthon

A Southern Political Economy vs. American State Capitalism

By Clyde Wilson

General Lee was a soldier and leader of men, not a politician. Although several of his decisions as soldier had an important political impact in American history, he seldom discussed such matters. An exception is… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Capitalism
  • Clyde Wilson
  • Southern Economics
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  • Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson vs. Paul Krugman, Alan Greenspan, et. al.

By Herrick Kimball

This post was originally published at The Deliberate Agrarian. Paul Krugman is a popular guy these days. The American economist was awarded a Nobel prize in Economics this year. In a recent interview I heard… »

  • Herrick Kimball
  • Southern Economics
  • Thomas Jefferson

Prosperity

By Clyde Wilson

Declining prosperity is now a settled fact of American life. Prosperity is not measured by the day’s average of stock speculation, or the profits of bankers, or the munificence of government subsidies and salaries, or… »

  • Clyde Wilson
  • Southern Economics
  • Southern History

Bailing the Capitalists: Our Southern Fathers Told Us What to Expect

By Clyde Wilson

“. . . and bank-notes will become as plentiful as oak leaves.” —Thomas Jefferson “They [the people], and not the rich are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not… »

  • Alexander Hamilton
  • Clyde Wilson
  • John C. Calhoun
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  • Southern Economics
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Civil War Arbitrage

By Philip Leigh

Wouldn’t it be great if an act of Congress enabled your federal government bonds to be worth twice what you paid for them? That’s precisely what happened for many federal Civil War bond investors during… »

  • Philip Leigh
  • Southern Economics
  • War for Southern Independence

A Jeffersonian Political Economy

By Clyde Wilson

Your other lecturers have pleasant and upbeat subjects to consider. I am stuck with economics, which is a notoriously dreary subject.   It is even more of a downer when we consider how far the U.S.… »

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A Lady Champion of Free Trade

By Karen Stokes

In her famous diary, Mary Chesnut called Mrs. Louisa S. McCord “the very cleverest woman” she knew. Of these two women from South Carolina, Chesnut is the most famous and widely read today, but Mrs.… »

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