Descript |
ix, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Note |
Papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Dartmouth College on May 8-9, 2009. |
Contents |
The significance of the founding choices: editor's introduction / Douglas A. Irwin and Richard Sylla -- Politics. The constitutional choices of 1787 and their consequences / Sonia Mittal, Jack N. Rakove, and Barry R. Weingast -- Policy. Financial foundations: public credit, the national bank, and securities markets / Richard Sylla -- Revenue or reciprocity? founding feuds over early U.S. trade policy / Douglas A. Irwin -- Monetary policy and the dollar / Peter l. Rousseau -- Federal and state commercial banking policy in the federalist era and beyond / Howard Bodenhorn -- The other foundings: federalism and the constitutional structure of American government / John Joseph Wallis -- Business organization and the factors of production. Rise of the corporation nation / Robert E. Wright -- U.S. land policy: founding choices and outcomes, 1781-1802 / Farley Grubb -- Free labor and slave labor / Stanley L. Engerman and Robert A. Margo -- Looking backward: founding choices in innovation and intellectual property protection / B. Zorina Khan. |
ISBN |
9780226384757 (pbk.) |
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9780226384740 |
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0226384748 |
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0226384756 (pbk.) |
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