Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History

Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History
Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin, editors

Some chapters may have appeared as NBER Working Papers, which are preliminary versions of the published papers.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Edward L. Glaeser

I. Corruption and Reform: Definitions and Historical Trends

Corruption and Reform: Introduction, (p. 3-22)
Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin


1. The Concept of Systematic Corruption in American History, (p. 23-62)
John Joseph Wallis


2. Limiting the Reach of the Grabbing Hand: Graft and Growth in American Cities, 1880 to 1930, (p. 63-93)
Rebecca Menes


3. Digging the Dirt at Public Expense: Governance in the Building of the Erie Canal and Other Public Works, (p. 95-122)
Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff

II. Consequences of Corruption

4. Corporate Governance and the Plight of Minority Shareholders in the United States before the Great Depression, (p. 125-152)
Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal


5. Water, Water Everywhere: Municipal Finance and Water Supply in American Cities, (p. 153-183)
David Cutler and Grant Miller

III. The Road to Reform

6. The Rise of the Fourth Estate: How Newspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered, (p. 187-230)
Matthew Gentzkow, Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin


7. Bank Chartering and Political Corruption in Antebellum New York: Free Banking as Reform, (p. 231-257)
Howard Bodenhorn


8. Regime Change and Corruption: A History of Public Utility Regulation, (p. 259-281)
Werner Troesken

IV. Reform and Regulation

9. The Irony of Reform: Did Large Employers Subvert Workplace Safety Reform, 1869 to 1930? (p. 285-318)
Price V. Fishback


10. The Determinants of Progressive Era Reform: The Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906, (p. 319-342)
Marc T. Law and Gary D. Libecap


11. Politics, Relief and Reform: Roosevelt's Efforts to Control Corruption and Political Manipulation during the New Deal, (p. 343-372)
John Joseph Wallis, Price V. Fishback and Shawn Kantor