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Was the US Born Modern?

In: From Partisan Banking to Open Access

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  • Qian Lu

    (Central University of Finance and Economics)

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The first chapter asks the question “Was the US Born Modern?” “Modern” here refers to the competitive economy and polity characterized by open access, in which the state provides legal organizational forms (such as corporations) impersonally to all parties in society. The implicit assumption behind the idea of the civil society is that USA was an open access society. Section 1 challenges the idea that American civil society was a natural outcome of American revolution and democracy. Section 2 reviews the related literature, presents previous arguments and asks the question why American elites allowed the transition to an open access society, given that they would suffer a loss if privileges were opened to all. Section 3 brings up the conceptual framework, around the characters of modern society: impersonal rules and open access for organizational forms. It proposes a question: was elite competition or elite-citizen completion to be the key force behind the transition to open access. Section 4 previews the results of the following chapters.

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  • Qian Lu, 2017. "Was the US Born Modern?," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: From Partisan Banking to Open Access, chapter 0, pages 1-13, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-319-67645-6_1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67645-6_1
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