• Login
    View Item 
    •   Athenaeum Home
    • University of Georgia Theses and Dissertations
    • University of Georgia Theses and Dissertations
    • View Item
    •   Athenaeum Home
    • University of Georgia Theses and Dissertations
    • University of Georgia Theses and Dissertations
    • View Item
    JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

    An economic interpretation of the founding of the Colony of Georgia

    Thumbnail
    Date
    2002-05
    Author
    Wilkins, Thomas Hart
    Metadata
    Show full item record
    Abstract
    This study seeks to understand the founding of the Colony of Georgia during the period 1730-1750 from an economic point of view. There are few historians alive today and no known living economists who specialize in the period and subject matter. Unique documents in the Hargrett Rare Books and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia reveal that James Edward Oglethorpe owned land in South Carolina. This thesis rejects writings from the Eighteenth, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries citing Oglethorpe as working African slaves on this land in South Carolina. Whereas General Oglethorpe appears to have operated in an Eighteenth Century rent-seeking model, the best explanation of his actions follow "the Roman method" of colonization, which utilized a cost-benefit analysis. Rather than interpret the founding as a failure, as many writers have done, this thesis uses economic reasoning to interpret the colony as a success.
    URI
    http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/uga_etd/wilkins_thomas_h_200205_ma
    http://hdl.handle.net/10724/29462
    Collections
    • University of Georgia Theses and Dissertations

    About Athenaeum | Contact Us | Send Feedback
     

     

    Browse

    All of AthenaeumCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

    My Account

    LoginRegister

    About Athenaeum | Contact Us | Send Feedback