Economic Inequality in the United States in the Period from 1790 to 1860

1971 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 822-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Soltow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Equality ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
Aggregate Wealth

There is some speculation that there was more economic egalitarianism in the United States among free men in the period from 1776 to 1790 than there was at any time in the following seventy years until the abolition of slavery. One would like to believe the speculation since it is known that there was extensive inequality of wealth in I860 and one would like to believe that the formation of the nation took place within a context of economic equality. This would be produced from a condition where aggregate wealth is shared fairly equally rather than being owned by a few. Let us give this ideal, this proposition relating to wealthholding for the Revolutionary era from 1776 to 1790, a title of romantic equality.

scholarly journals Economic Inequality and College Admissions Policies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Orentlicher
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
College Admissions ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Student Diversity ◽  
Economic Equality ◽  
Class Rank ◽  
Admissions Policies ◽  
Elite Universities ◽  
The Impact

Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy: Vol. 26 : Iss. 1 , Article 3As economic inequality in the United States has reached unprecedented heights, reformers have focused considerable attention on changes in the law that would provide for greater equality in wealth among Americans. No doubt, much benefit would result from more equitable tax policies, fairer workplace regulation, and more generous spending policies.But there may be even more to gain by revising college admissions policies. Admissions policies at the Ivy League and other elite American colleges do much to exacerbate the problem of economic inequality. Accordingly, reforming those policies may represent the most effective strategy for restoring a reasonable degree of economic equality in the United States. Fortunately, there is an important alternative to traditional admissions policies for elite universities to consider—“top class rank” policies. Indeed, some public universities have already adopted top class rank policies in lieu of affirmative action to promote student body diversity. While the impact on student diversity is a key feature of top rank policies, this Article focuses on another critical benefit of the policies— their ability to turn elite universities from institutions that exacerbate economic inequality into institutions that foster economic equality.

“Christians Love the Jews!” The Development of American Philo-Semitism, 1790-1860

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert K. Whalen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Religious Literature ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
Early National Period ◽  
Early National ◽  
Social Views ◽  
British Research

Philo-Semitism is America's enduring contribution to the long, troubled, often murderous dealings of Christians with Jews. Its origins are English, and it drew continuously on two centuries of British research into biblical prophecy from the seventeenth Century onward. Philo-Semitism was, however, soon “domesticated” and adapted to the political and theological climate of America after independence. As a result, it changed as America changed. In the early national period, religious literature abounded that foresaw the conversion of the Jews and the restoration of Israel as the ordained task of the millennial nation—the United States. This scenario was, allowing for exceptions, socially and theologically optimistic and politically liberal, as befit the ethos of a revolutionary era. By the eve of Civil War, however, countless evangelicals cleaved to a darker vision of Christ's return in blood and upheaval. They disparaged liberal social views and remained loyal to an Augustinian theology that others modified or abandoned.

Causes of Changing Inequality in the United States

Inequality ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
James K. Galbraith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social History ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Affluent Society

A half-century ago, the study of economic inequality was moribund in the United States. Indeed, in 1958 John Kenneth Galbraith noted in The Affluent Society that “few things are more evident in modern social history than the decline of interest in inequality...

Revolution

Atlantic Wars ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 252-273
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Plank
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Military Intervention ◽  
The United States ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
Transatlantic Slave Trade ◽  
The Common ◽  
Moral Superiority

Chapter 11 traces the common origins and consequences of revolutions in various regions of the Atlantic world. In Europe and much of the Americas, a new military ethic developed, promoting patriotic and loyal service and condemning mercenaries and foreign interventionists. Campaigners against the transatlantic slave trade sought to dissociate Europeans and Americans from African violence. In the Americas, revolutionary conflict fuelled racial and communal animosity. Revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries sensed their own moral superiority and showed contempt for their opponents. Anger, fear, and the desire for vengeance fed on each other, in some places leading to genocidal violence. In the early nineteenth century the United States condemned British aid to indigenous American warriors and expressed general opposition to European military intervention in the newly independent American republics. National and imperial policies adopted in the revolutionary era broke the early modern pattern of transatlantic war.

scholarly journals Unequal we stand: An empirical analysis of economic inequality in the United States, 1967–2006

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Heathcote ◽  
Fabrizio Perri ◽  
Giovanni L. Violante
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
The United States

Social and Economic Inequality and Asian Americans in the United States

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Segal ◽  
Keith M. Kilty ◽  
Rebecca Y. Kim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Asian Americans ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
The United States
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