Firesale Prices: The Decimation of the Southern Public Domain
How the Southern forests were stripped bare by Northern and European capitalists
History
The Railroad Trust of the New South
J.P. Morgan takes over the Southern railroad network
Review: The Palmetto State: The Making of Modern South Carolina
A brief overview of South Carolina history
Review: Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (1920-1993)
The creation of Modern Alabama, 1920-1993
The Forgotten Southern Tradition of Big Government
Trump is “tapping into something”
Review: Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (1865-1920)
Colonial Alabama, 1865 to 1920
Joseph Goldberger, Pellagra, and the American South
The pellagra epidemic in the American South
Review: Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (Until 1861)
Jeffersonianism retarded Alabama’s economic development
New Orleans City Council Votes To Remove Confederate Statues
Confederate monuments declared a “public nuisance”
Review: Michael Lind’s Land of Promise
An economic history of the United States
Review: Thomas DiLorenzo’s Hamilton’s Curse
Alexander Hamilton is the bête noire of libertarians
Live Thread: Michael Cushman on The Political Cesspool
Michael Cushman on the origins of Southern culture
Review: Ha-Joon Chang’s Kicking Away The Ladder
Development strategy in historical perspective
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
Extractive Industries, Poverty, and Underdevelopment in Central Appalachia
How the free-market underdeveloped Appalachia
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
Review: Michael Cushman’s ‘Our Southern Nation’
The rise and fall of the Golden Circle
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
James D. B. De Bow and Southern Industrialization
James D.B. DeBow advocated Southern economic independence
Confederate Constitution and Jeffersonianism
Confederate Constitution bans protectionism and internal improvements
The Japanese Miracle
The Japanese rejection of neoliberal economics
The Libertarian Legend
America’s long history of economic nationalism