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The Rhodes Center Podcast: America Has Always Been a 'Credit Nation'

On this episode: a conversation with Claire Priest. Clair is a historian and Professor at Yale Law School, and author of the book Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America. In it, she explains how even before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. This reality didn’t just shape colonial economies -- it was also a key factor in the explosive growth of American capitalism in the nineteenth-century. This episode was guest-hosted by Rhodes Center Fellow Ann Daly. She's a historian, Assistant Professor of History at Mississippi State University, and an expert on the economics of the American colonies. Watch Claire Priest's talk at the Rhodes Center.    • Claire Priest ─ Credit Nation: Property La...   Learn more about the Watson Institute’s other podcasts. https://watson.brown.edu/news/podcasts