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This chapter answers the question that the first chapter raises up: Was USA born a civil society? And if not, how it evolves into a modern society in the sense of impersonal rules and open access of organizations? This project provides clear evidence that the USA was not an open access society in the sense of competitive economy and polity, shown by early nineteenth century banking.
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Lu, Q. (2017). Conclusion: Democracy, Civil Society, Elites, and Impersonal Rules. In: From Partisan Banking to Open Access. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67645-6_7
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