the ideological origins of the american revolution bailyn bernard 1992

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“Interest Payments on Demand Deposits and Bank Investment Behavior.” Journal of Political Economy 72: 431–49.īlum, J. “The Banks and the Stock Market.” Journal of Political Economy 43: 763–77.īenston, G. Washington, D.C.: Federal Reserve Board of Governors.īarger, H. “The Impact of the Payment of Interest on Demand Deposits.” Unpublished. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.Īxilrod, S. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. To understand fully the action of our revolutionary ancestors, we must see it first through their eyes, from within their ideological perspective, and then recognize where that ideology sometimes diverged from the economic and political reality of their day. He portrays the political rebels of the 1770s as unconscious victims of cultural lag, interpreting the actions of king and parliament through the distorted ideological lens of a fading political theory inherited from some angry English Whigs of the preceding century. Bailyn’s book makes this debate over the economic costs of imperialism largely irrelevant by reminding us that the conflict did not involve “rational” economic or political men maximizing their individual or national interest.

Economic historians in recent years have devoted great energy and ingenuity to measuring the economic burdens on (or benefits for) the American colonists of British imperialism, on the presumption that their answer might reveal the economic basis for that political conflict. The title for this paper deliberately paraphrases Bernard Bailyn’s masterful work, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution.

The ideological origins of the american revolution bailyn bernard 1992