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Nov 1, 2021 · Between the Civil War and the dawn of the 20th century, two serious financial panics, each followed by a deep economic depression (in 1873 and 1893), rocked American capitalism in town and ...
Oct 12, 1999 · The Virginians in Jamestown, the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay, the Quakers in Pennsylvania and other early settlers of what later became the United States all brought with them elements of capitalism, precursors of the future nation's market-driven direction.
A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era ahead.
Jul 5, 2021 · Capitalism started as an economic system; it has become an ideology in the modern United States. The Throughline team has been thinking about capitalism a lot these days. It's hard not to when so...
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The ensuing crises, especially the Great Depression, provoked government policymakers to build the regulatory capacity to moderate capitalism's swings (“The Age of Control”). In the late twentieth century, however, capitalism again burst its fetters.
This article engages with scholars working on the history of capitalism and with scholars of American political development to form a historical materialist perspective on the creation of the American federal government.
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In 1939, America’s first business historian, Norman Scott Brien Gras, traced capitalism’s life span and variants back to the “petty capitalism” of medieval traveling merchants and shopkeepers, which was followed by, and coexisted with, early modern mercantile capitalism, industrial capitalism, and financial capitalism.
