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1 Online-Ressource (viii, 312 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780226301341
Series Statement:
A National Bureau of Economic Research project report
Content:
How has the United States government grown? What political and economic factors have given rise to its regulation of the economy? These eight case studies explore the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century origins of government intervention in the United States economy, focusing on the political influence of special interest groups in the development of economic regulation.The Regulated Economy examines how constituent groups emerged and demanded government action to solve perceived economic problems, such as exorbitant railroad and utility rates, bank failure, falling agricultural price
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The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy; Contents; Introduction; 1. The Origins of State Railroad Regulation: The Illinois Constitution of 1870; 2. The Institutional Antecedents of State Utility Regulation: The Chicago Gas Industry, 1860 to 1913; 3. Congress and Railroad Regulation: 1874 to 1887; 4. The Interaction of Taxation and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Banking; 5. The Origins of Federal Deposit Insurance; 6. Political Bargaining and Cartelization in the New Deal: Orange Marketing Orders
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7. The Political Economy of Immigration Restriction in the United States, 1890 to 19218. Coalition Formation and the Adoption of Workers' Compensation: The Case of Missouri, 1911 to 1926; Contributors; Author Index; Subject Index;
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ISBN 9780226301341
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226301105
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The regulated economy Chicago [u.a.] : The Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994 ISBN 0226301109
Language:
English
Subjects:
Economics
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Geschichte 1860-1926
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