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U.S. Capitalism Formed in Early 1800s says historian

Andrew Shankman, associate professor at Rutgers University, talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene about the rise of democracy and capitalism in the U.S. Shankman is author of "Crucible of American Democracy: The Struggle to Fuse Egalitarianism and Capitalism in Jeffersonian Pennsylvania.
Read entire article at Bloomberg News