It's not a specialty of mine, but in the same way that a lot of specific financial instruments were invented in Italy in the 1400-1600s, a lot about what we understand and experience as Capitalism in America goes very much back to the railroads. Hopefully #Traingang can drop some more recent book recommends.
Almost as if the building of the railroads themselves was a vast ponzi scheme designed to enrich capitalists. :soviet-hmm:
Hey I didn't knew that, wjere can I read more about it?
I’m not entirely sure if it has to do anything with this map but there were railroad tycoons back in the 1800s
It's not a specialty of mine, but in the same way that a lot of specific financial instruments were invented in Italy in the 1400-1600s, a lot about what we understand and experience as Capitalism in America goes very much back to the railroads. Hopefully #Traingang can drop some more recent book recommends.