Credit nation : property laws and legal institutions in early America /
How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on credit. Even before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. Credit Nation examines how the drive to expand credit shaped p...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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Table of Contents:
- Foundations of property and credit
- Property exemptions : commodifying land and slaves in colonial America
- Managing risk in colonial America
- The Stamp Act, independence and the founding.