The Regulated Economy

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Introduction 1
Claudia Goldin, Gary D. Libecap.
1: The Origins of State Railroad Regulation: The Illinois Constitution of
1870 13
Mark T. Kanazawa, Roger G. Noll.
2: The Institutional Antecedents of State Utility Regulation: The Chicago
Gas Industry, 1860 to 1913 55
Werner Troesken
3: Congress and Railroad Regulation: 1874 to 1887 81
Keith T. Poole, Howard Rosenthal.
4: The Interaction of Taxation and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century U.S.
Banking 121
John Joseph Wallis, Richard E. Sylla, John B. Legler.
5: The Origins of Federal Deposit Insurance 145
Charles W. Calomiris, Eugene N. White.
6: Political Bargaining and Cartelization in the New Deal: Orange Marketing
Orders 189
Elizabeth Hoffman, Gary D. Libecap.
7: The Political Economy of Immigration Restriction in the United States,
1890 to 1921 223
Claudia Goldin
8: Coalition Formation and the Adoption of Workers' Compensation: The Case
of Missouri, 1911 to 1926 259
Shawn Everett Kantor, Price V. Fishback.
Contributors 299
Author Index 301
Subject Index 307