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A Republic of Producers: Completing Our Jeffersonian Economy with Hamiltonian Finance

A Republic of Producers: Completing Our Jeffersonian Economy with Hamiltonian Finance

Hockett, Robert C.

Hardcover

EconomicsGeneral Political ScienceGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0300224176
ISBN13: 9780300224177
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: Jan 13 2026
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.51 Width: 6.21 Depth: 9.55
Language: English
A radically original solution to our most intractable economic problems: wage stagnation, productive atrophy, and wealth inequality

This sweeping and ambitious book locates the source of American economic and social decline in a simple but profound observation: the nation's forms of citizen ownership have not kept up with its sources of wealth. In the early republic, the Jeffersonian ideal of an agrarian citizenry, whose productive assets lay primarily in land ownership and their own education, more or less matched the productive sources of wealth in the nation as a whole. But as we grew from an agrarian nation to an industrial one, the forms of citizen ownership did not change with the economy: instead, efforts toward land ownership were transferred to ownership in unproductive real estate--that is, homes. It is the effort to draw wealth from limited and relatively unproductive sources that makes the average American citizen fall farther and farther behind in income, and also caused the artificial inflation of real estate that led to the 2008 crash.

Advancing a theory of income-compositional symmetry, Robert C. Hockett argues that in order to remedy wage stagnation, productive atrophy, and extreme wealth inequality, industrial, financial, and commercial forms of ownership need to be as universally accessible to citizens as land and education. Hockett presents a unique, financially engineered program for doing so, showing how it coheres with our political and legal traditions as well as what he calls our endowment psychologies.

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