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Founding choices [electronic resource] : American economic policy in the 1790s /

by Irwin, Douglas A; Sylla, Richard Eugene; National Bureau of Economic Research; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011Description: ix, 353 p. : ill.ISBN: ; ; ; ; .Subject(s): United States -- Economic policy -- 18th century -- Congresses | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
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.
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Papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Dartmouth College on May 8-9, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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