The Dig: Founding Finance with William Hogeland
Jacobin Radio
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Is There a Difference Between a Regulator and a Royal Governor?
Riot was sometimes considered by elites kind of almost a necessary like safety valve. You could get economic relief by rioting. So they sometimes did succeed in getting the legitimate government to actually do some things like give easy term loans through what we're called land banks and other populist agrarian kind of finance. But it was but it was spasmodic and always conflicted, but they did sometimes have some success.
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