Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation The Economics of the Civil War,9780842029612

Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation The Economics of the Civil War

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ISBN13: 9780842029612
ISBN10: 0842029613
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-01-01
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Summary

What role did economics play in leading the United States into the Civil War in the 1860s, and how did the war affect the economies of the North and the South? Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation uses contemporary economic analyses such as supply and

Author Biography

Mark Thornton is a Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute Robert B. Ekelund Jr. is currently the Edward K. and Catherine L. Lowder Eminent Scholar at Auburn University and Vernon F. Taylor Visiting Distinguished Professor at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas

Table of Contents

Introduction: How Economics Illuminates the Civil War xiii
CHAPTER ONE ECONOMIC INTERESTS AND THE ONSET OF THE CIVIL WAR: THE TARIFF 1(28)
CHAPTER TWO THE UNION BLOCKADE AND SOUTHERN STRATEGY 29(30)
CHAPTER THREE INFLATION, NORTH AND SOUTH 59(22)
CHAPTER FOUR CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR 81(24)
Bibliographical Essay 105(12)
Index 117

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