Henry Charles Carey
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Sep 24, 2026
Alex KrainerGUEST
It's been called the national system of political economy.
Alex KrainerGUEST
It's also referred to often as the American system because it has been, it was pioneered by people like Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay, Henry Carey, and so forth in the United States.
Alex KrainerGUEST
And it has turned the United States.
Alex KrainerGUEST
from a patchwork of British colonies that were quite backwards to a superpower in the space of two, three generations.
Alex KrainerGUEST
Economic textbooks don't talk about this system, about these two systems.
Alex KrainerGUEST
They don't mention Alexander Hamilton in any context as an economist.
Alex KrainerGUEST
They don't mention Henry Carey.
Alex KrainerGUEST
They don't mention Friedrich List.
Cynthia ChungGUEST
Well, the thing that people have to understand as well is that I'll do like, I guess, a quick overview here.
Cynthia ChungGUEST
My approach to history is that the United States really did put forward an economic orientation a la, you know, kind of Henry C. Carey Centennial Exhibition, the machine tool industry, which allowed the United States to be the most powerful country within 100 years.
Cynthia ChungGUEST
of its origin, they had set up an economic system that was unique in history.
Cynthia ChungGUEST
And it was the first time that something could really feasibly compete against the system of empire.
Cynthia ChungGUEST
So the British Empire was saw what lay ahead for it in terms of the consequences of this and that The American system, which is what is referred to in this school of economics, the centennial exhibition that was organized by Henry C. Carey was specifically to invite other countries to adopt this very policy.
Cynthia ChungGUEST
So it's very counter to kind of like how America is oriented today.
Cynthia ChungGUEST
But they wanted to share these because the idea was that if you promoted sovereign nation states, this was going to be the cure to end imperialism.
Alex KrainerGUEST
And Jacques Cheminade was a very close collaborator of, uh, Lyndon LaRouche.
Alex KrainerGUEST
What, what, what they basically dug up was the knowledge about economic governance, uh, s- going back to economists like Friedrich List, through Ale- to back to Alexander Hamilton, uh, Henry Carey.
Alex KrainerGUEST
Uh, it was, it was the model that turned the United States from a patchwork of disjointed British colonies, uh, into a superpower that the United States became, uh, at the end of the 19th century already.
Alex KrainerGUEST
But then, you know, again, at the beginning of the 20th century, we had the infiltration by the, by the British Empire.
Peter RyanGUEST
And if you don't like that, you can find other versions of this stuff.
Peter RyanGUEST
Uh, particularly, um, a 19th century Irish American economist named Henry Carey, who falls into the economic nationalist perspective alongside Frederick list.
Peter RyanGUEST
And we can talk later about why I think he's probably a better, more informative.
Peter RyanGUEST
thinker to talk about these ideas with.
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Peter RyanGUEST
There's other things where he maybe even like kind of goes against the grain of his other fellow travelers in this tradition.
Peter RyanGUEST
And so that's where I would say...
Peter RyanGUEST
Who might be some of those? Yeah, I would say the premier fellow traveler that I find is a better archetype to fill this role is someone like Henry Carey.
Peter RyanGUEST
He was an American of Irish descent.