Moral dividends: Freemasonry and finance capitalism in early-nineteenth-century America
利用印第安纳州共济会档案，揭示19世纪早期金融资本主义的物质实践与象征取向如何被移植到共济会中，以及共济会的道德声望如何反过来影响金融资本主义的制度化。
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.