Archive - The Economic Historian

Capitalism, Slavery, and Economic White Supremacy

Tracing America's Racial Wealth Gap from 1655 to Today

Jun 19

When Will There Be an Accounting for Segregation?

Understanding Segregation as an Economic System

Jun 10

May 2025

This Week in Economic History #1

A weekly guide to economic history (May 26–31)

May 30

Bankrolling the Republic

Nicholas Biddle, the Bank War, and the Origins of Corporate Influence in American Democracy

May 27

Speculative Bubbles in History

A Perspective on an Unsettled Concept

May 22

Asking Enron Why 25 Years Later

How a Haunting Ad Campaign Exposed the Fragile Core of a Corporate Giant

May 19

The Wright Stuff

Gavin Wright and the Making of Southern Economic History

May 13

Capitalism, Slavery, and Power over Price

Historian Caitlin Rosenthal discusses slavery, commodification, and defining capitalism

May 7

January 2025

Ronald Reagan and the Myth of the Self-Made Entrepreneur

How 1980s Free Market Policies Undermined America's Small Business Owners

Jan 15

The Tariff of 1816

Protectionism in the Early National Period

Jan 14

December 2024

Constructing the Capitalist Creed

How "free enterprise" became an American tradition

Dec 18, 2024

A Few Random Thoughts on Capitalism and Slavery

Dec 12, 2024

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