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2080
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English
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The Kirtland Economy Revisited : A Market Critique of Sectarian Economics
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1977
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17
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Studies in Mormon History, vol. 3. Provo, Utah
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Brigham Young University Press
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391-476
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[1978 Mormon Historical Association Winner for Best Article]
The authors attempt to strip the tendency to 'moralize' about Kirtland's economic history. They hold: 'It is our contention that oral judgments upon Mormonism have obscured the real story of what happened to the Kirtland economy. Our argument is based upon the premise that the voluntary nature of market transactions imposes constraints upon behavior--that creditors demand assets or they refuse to make loans, and buyers and sellers expect fair market prices or they do not trade. We think the evidence demonstrates that these principles operated at Kirtland, and believe that all parties to the business arrangements in question participated because they believed that they would benefit from the results. Previous historical accounts of the Kirtland economy have overlooked the fact that Smith provided his creditors with assets, that he was buying and selling land at market prices, and that the economic reversals in the Kirtland economy involved a change in economic conditions that 'reasonably prudent' economic men probably would not have anticipated.' (p. 374) The resulting conclusion is that Smith and his associates were more responsible than many accounts would suggest.
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A Commentary on the Doctrine and Covenants, Vol. 4
Alexander Campbell and Joseph Smith
American Values for a "New Jerusalem": Formations of the First United Order of Enoch, 1860-71
A Peculiar People : Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth-Century America
Brigham Young : American Moses
Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith
Carthage Conspiracy : The Trial of the Accused Assassins of Joseph Smith
Cultural Crisis in the Mormon Kingdom : A Reconsideration of the Causes of Kirtland Dissent
"Dictated by Christ" : Joseph Smith and the Politics of Revelation
Differing Visions : Dissenters in Mormon History
East of Nauvoo: Benjamin Winchester and the Early Mormon Church
Eighth Witness : The Biography of John Whitmer
From Doctor to Disciple : Willard Richard's Journey to Mormonism
Grandison Newell's Obsession
In Heaven as It Is on Earth : Joseph Smith and the Early Mormon Conquest of Death
Joseph Bates Noble : Polygamy and the Temple Lot Case
Joseph (Smith) in Egypt : Babel, Hieroglyphs, and the Pure Language of Eden
Joseph Smith's Performance of Marriages in Ohio
Joseph Smith the Man : Some Reflections on a Subject of Controversy
Kirtland Economy
Lyman E. Johnson : Forgotten Apostle
Lyman Sherman--Man of God, Would-Be Apostle
Martin Harris : Uncompromising Witness of the Book of Mormon
Mormon Bibliography 1978
Mormon Enigma : Emma Hale Smith
Mormonism and Music : A History
Naturalistic Assumptions and the Book of Mormon
New Perspectives in Mormon Studies : Creating and Crossing Boundaries
Ownership of the Kirtland Temple : Legends, Lies, and Misunderstandings
Quorum of Apostles : Actions of Dissent at Kirtland
Radical Origins : Early Mormon Converts and Their Colonial Ancestors
Real Native Genius :
How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians
Sampson Avard : The First Danite
Studies in Scripture
Temples Rising : A Heritage of Sacrifice
The Emergence of Brigham Young and the Twelve to Mormon Leadership, 1830-1841
The Impact of the Mormon Migration on the Community of Kirtland, Ohio, 1830-1839
The Joseph Smith Papers : Documents, Volume 5 : October 1835–January 1838
The Joseph Smith Papers : Histories. Volume 2, Assigned Histories, 1831-1847
The Journey of a People : The Era of Restoration, 1820 to 1844
The Kirtland Safety Society and the Fraud of Grandison Newell : A Legal Examination
The Life of Dr. Frederick G. Williams :
Counselor to the Prophet Joseph Smith
The Mormon History Association's Tanner Lectures : The First Twenty Years
The New England Origins of Mormonism Revisited
The Passage of Mormon Primitivism
The Powell Expedition : New Discoveries about John Wesley Powell's 1869 River Journey
The Triangle and the Sovereign : Logics, Histories, and an Open Canon
The 'Unidentified Pioneers' : An Analysis of Staffordshire Mormons, 1837 to 1870
The United Order of Joseph Smith's Times
Treachery and False Swearing in Missouri : The Rise and Fall of Sampson Avard
Two Restoration Traditions : Mormons and Churches of Christ in the Nineteenth Century
Zion in the Courts : A Legal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900 -
A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Bank Born of Revelation : The Kirtland Safety Society Anti-Banking Company
Conflict at Kirtland : The Nature and Causes of External and Internal Conflict of the Mormons in Ohio between 1830 and 1838
Early Days of Mormonism, Palmyra, Kirtland, and Nauvoo
Great Basin Kingdom : An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900
History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Period I : History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet, by Himself
Mormons at Kirtland
No Man Knows My History : The Life of Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet
Stories about Joseph Smith, the Prophet : A Collection of Incidents Related by Friends who Knew Him
The Failure of the Kirtland Safety Society
The Growth of the Mormon Church in Kirtland, Ohio
The Kirtland Diary of Wilford Woodruff
The Kirtland Safety Society : The Stock Ledger Book and the Bank Failure
The Mormon Economy in Kirtland, Ohio
The Rocky Mountain Saints : A Full and Complete History of the Mormons
The Role of Christian Primitivism in the Origin and Development of the Mormon Kingdom, 1830-1844
The Story of the Mormons : From the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901