Moral dividends: Freemasonry and finance capitalism in early-nineteenth-century America

Pamela A. Popielarz

Business History, 2018, vol. 60, issue 5, 655-676

Abstract: Using documents from the Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of the State of Indiana (USA), I show how the material practices and symbolic orientations of finance capitalism became transposed into Freemasonry in the early-nineteenth century. I briefly discuss why this happened and point to how these developments shaped the institutional trajectory of Freemasonry. Next, I observe that the symbolic moral standing of Freemasonry became transposed onto finance capitalism as undertaken by its members and other white men like them. After a brief explanation, I outline how these developments affected the institutionalisation of finance capitalism.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2016.1248946

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