NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy

Claudia Goldin and Gary D. Libecap, editors

Conference held May 20-21, 1993
Published in January 1994 by University of Chicago Press
© 1994 by the National Bureau of Economic Research

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318 pages
ISBN: 0-226-30110-9

Table of Contents

Front matter, table of contents: Claudia Goldin, Gary D. Libecap (p. -9 - 0) (bibliographic info) (download)

Introduction: Claudia Goldin, Gary D. Libecap (p. 1 - 12) (bibliographic info) (download)

1. The Origins of State Railroad Regulation: The Illinois Constitution of 1870: Mark T. Kanazawa, Roger G. Noll (p. 13 - 54) (bibliographic info) (download)

2. The Institutional Antecedents of State Utility Regulation: The Chicago Gas Industry, 1860 to 1913: Werner Troesken (p. 55 - 80) (bibliographic info) (download)

3. Congress and Railroad Regulation: 1874 to 1887: Keith T. Poole, Howard Rosenthal (p. 81 - 120) (bibliographic info) (download)

4. The Interaction of Taxation and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Banking: John Joseph Wallis, Richard E. Sylla, John B. Legler (p. 121 - 144) (bibliographic info) (download)

5. The Origins of Federal Deposit Insurance: Charles W. Calomiris, Eugene N. White (p. 145 - 188) (bibliographic info) (download)

6. Political Bargaining and Cartelization in the New Deal: Orange Marketing Orders: Elizabeth Hoffman, Gary D. Libecap (p. 189 - 222) (bibliographic info) (download)

7. The Political Economy of Immigration Restriction in the United States, 1890 to 1921: Claudia Goldin (p. 223 - 258) (bibliographic info) (download)

8. Coalition Formation and the Adoption of Workers? Compensation: The Case of Missouri, 1911 to 1926: Shawn Everett Kantor, Price V. Fishback (p. 259 - 298) (bibliographic info) (download)

List of Contributors, Indexes: Claudia Goldin, Gary D. Libecap (p. 299 - 314) (bibliographic info) (download)

 
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