The Rhodes Center Podcast: America Has Always Been a 'Credit Nation'

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Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

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On this episode: a conversation with Claire Priest. Clair is a historian and Professor at Yale Law School, and author of the book Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America.
In it, she explains how even before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. This reality didn’t just shape colonial economies -- it was also a key factor in the explosive growth of American capitalism in the nineteenth-century.
This episode was guest-hosted by Rhodes Center Fellow Ann Daly. She's a historian, Assistant Professor of History at Mississippi State University, and an expert on the economics of the American colonies.
Watch Claire Priest's talk at the Rhodes Center.
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@scriptguru4669 2 жыл бұрын

Mark on the thumbnail, no mark in the podcast, well baited WIIPA

@kayvee256 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they got me too.

@eottoe2001 2 жыл бұрын

This is so obscure but thanks for posting this. Most people don't get that capitalism changes over time and isn't just one thing.

@Yor_gamma_ix_bae 2 жыл бұрын

Always fun to read about our past systems. I loved going thru bagehot and his writing on trade systems of early Americans and natives.

@roc7880 2 жыл бұрын

a fantastic book about the comanches by a guy with finnish name Harmalainend named The comanche empire

@roc7880 2 жыл бұрын

it makes you understand the unique trait of the American SouthWest to this day

@nobody_8_1 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent.

@alcosmic 2 жыл бұрын

Blythe bait and switch!

@roc7880 2 жыл бұрын

it was worthy, I will try to read the book. if I will have time

@tracyleighbasham 2 жыл бұрын

Fascinating work.

@roc7880 2 жыл бұрын

the narrative of conquest or european exceptionalism misses the critical mass trigger: the fact that colonists found and used native ideas, institutions and infrastructure. the narrative we have today misses the agency of indigenous people, and we need a historically correct story not politically correct one

@christopherdobbie 2 жыл бұрын

Loved the anti-factual question posed near the end of the Podcast, obviously if there wasn't a resource, i.e. land to exploit, America wouldn't exist.

@roc7880 2 жыл бұрын

if you want to imagine US without slavery look at Cananda not England.

@ab8588 2 жыл бұрын

Hot off the press

@MrHobbes343 2 жыл бұрын

Watson institute playing silly buggers for views? What a wild world.

@roc7880 2 жыл бұрын

those who complaint against the 1619 project should deny the main tenet of the project: slavery was essential for the entire capitalist entreprise by generating capital for the industrial development. otherwise, US would still be an agrarian society. no banks and no factories

@buzoff4642 11 ай бұрын

Across the globe, across history, exists monuments to wealth and power, built from predation on captive labor. As a spin-off of England, the US has it in its DNA. Today's variant is to flood an area with food glut, to deliver agrarian population into factories. Example NAFTA/Mexico. US, non-agragarian, post-civil rights passing, felonizing. Still not enough cheap/free labor, the west/westernized turns to import of a labor glut. No good reason US commerce is entitled to $2.13 an hour wait staff, $2 a day prison labor.