Review: Thomas DiLorenzo’s Hamilton’s Curse
Alexander Hamilton is the bête noire of libertarians
Economy
Pew: US Middle Class Is Losing Ground
American middle class shrinks in relative size
Review: Ha-Joon Chang’s Kicking Away The Ladder
Development strategy in historical perspective
Review: Pat Buchanan’s The Great Betrayal
The manifesto of American economic nationalism
Wigfall vs. De Bow: Two Views of Southern Economic Independence
Fire eaters divide over economics
Southern Manufacturing Job Losses Since WTO and NAFTA
The economic impact of free-trade on Southern manufacturing
Developmental Capitalism
What is developmental capitalism?
Review: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Agriculture and Industry (Industry)
The history of Southern industrialization
Central Appalachia’s Extractive Economy
How the “free-market” underdeveloped Central Appalachia
In Defense of America’s ‘Benedict Arnold’ CEOs
Free-market theorist defends corporate inversions
Review: Lou Dobbs’ Exporting America
America exports middle class jobs
Rural Electrification Administration
How the state brought electricity to the South
Review: Ha-Joon Chang’s Bad Samaritans
A critique of neo-liberal economics
Correlli Barnett on Britain and Free Trade
Free trade and the decline of the British Empire
Review: Alabama In The Twentieth Century (Economy)
A brief review of Alabama’s modern economy
Southern Agrarians and Sharecropping
Agrarianism circa 1930
South Korea’s Steel Industry
A state owned enterprise that made no free-market sense
South Korea’s Economic Miracle
South Korea and the myth of free trade
‘Golden Circle’ Weaknesses
The ‘Golden Circle’ was too weak to resist outsiders
George Fitzhugh on Laissez-Faire
Economic theory vs. practice in the antebellum South
Review: John Kvach’s De Bow’s Review: The Antebellum Vision of a New South
De Bow’s Review anticipates the New South
Trump’s Trade Policy on China
Donald Trump says he will label China a currency manipulator
Live Thread: Fourth 2016 Republican Presidential Debate
Trump preparing to rumble in trade in tonight’s debate
Trump: End China’s Currency Manipulation
Donald Trump publishes op-ed on trade in the Wall Street Journal
De Bow’s Vision
James D. B. De Bow’s economic nationalism
Confederate Constitution and Jeffersonianism
Confederate Constitution bans protectionism and internal improvements
Trans-Pacific Partnership Full Text Released
Sen. Jeff Sessions: kill this deal in the cradle
Review: Clyde Prestowitz’s The Betrayal of American Prosperity
A critique of free-trade, free-market fundamentalism
American vs. German Corporations
A key difference between US and German corporations
Southern Nationalism and Radical Centrists
Can an independent South be built on Jeffersonianism?
China Unveils Its First Commercial Jet To Compete With Boeing and Airbus
“A great nation must have its own large commercial aircraft”
Globalization 2.0
Globalization sucks American jobs overseas