How TRIPs Got Legs: Copyright, Trade Policy, and the Role of Government in Nineteenth-Century American Economic Thought

Meardon, Stephen

doi:10.1215/00182702-37-suppl_1-145

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“…In this respect it is interesting to note that Carey, the protectionist, strongly advocated the free fl ow of ideas and limited copyright protection, and actively opposed international copyright. See Meardon ( 2005 ) for a discussion of this outlook. 16 But Mann's protectionism had defi nite limits.…”

Section: The Visionary Political Economy Of Horace Mannmentioning

confidence: 99%

American Political Economy and the Common School Movement: 1820–1850

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2015

J Hist Econ Thought

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Classical political economy in Great Britain was broadly supportive of education, but limited government's role to modest assistance for charitable schools. The early classical economists in the United States, men like Thomas Cooper and Francis Wayland, in addition to supporting free trade, took this classical position with respect to education. But a more aggressive democratic claim was being advanced by the American common school movement and its supporters among Whig protectionists. The early economic tracts of William Jennison, Willard Phillips, Calvin Colton, and Henry Carey envisioned a larger role for government and advocated support for publicly fi nanced common schools. Most notably, the leader of the common school movement, Horace Mann, built a defense for public fi nancing based on a radical theory of property, derived from distinctly Puritan economic doctrine. If his radical positions received little support from post-Civil War mainstream economists, Mann's practical advocacy of public taxation for public schools very much carried the day.

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Section: The Visionary Political Economy Of Horace Mannmentioning

confidence: 99%