NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s

Douglas Irwin and Richard Sylla, editors

Conference held May 8-9, 2009
Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press


The following chapters are preliminary drafts unless otherwise noted. They have not yet been subjected to the formal review process of the NBER. This page will be updated as individual chapters are revised.

Table of Contents

The Significance of the Founding Choices: Editors’ Introduction: Douglas A. Irwin, Richard Sylla (bibliographic info) (download)

1. The Constitutional Choices of 1787 and Their Consequences: Sonia Mittal, Jack N. Rakove, Barry R. Weingast (bibliographic info) (download) version of August 28, 2009

2. Financial Foundations: Public Credit, the National Bank, and Securities Markets: Richard Sylla (bibliographic info) (download) version of August 28, 2009

3. Revenue or Reciprocity? Founding Feuds over Early U.S. Trade Policy: Douglas A. Irwin (bibliographic info) (download) version of August 28, 2009

4. Monetary Policy and the Dollar: Peter L. Rousseau (bibliographic info) (download) version of August 28, 2009

5. Land Policy: Founding Choices and Outcomes, 1781-1802: Farley Grubb (bibliographic info) (download) version of August 28, 2009

6. Looking Backward: Founding Choices in Innovation and Intellectual Property Protection: B. Zorina Khan (bibliographic info) (download) version of August 28, 2009

7. The Other Foundings: Federalism and the Constitutional Structure of American Government: John Joseph Wallis (bibliographic info) (download) version of August 28, 2009

8. Splendid Associations of Favored Individuals: Federal and State Commercial Banking Policy in the Federalist Era: Howard Bodenhorn (bibliographic info) (download) version of August 28, 2009

9. Rise of the Corporation Nation: Robert E. Wright (bibliographic info) (download) version of August 28, 2009

10. Free Labor and Slave Labor: Stanley L. Engerman, Robert A. Margo (bibliographic info) (download) version of August 28, 2009

 
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