Politics and Property Rights
The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South
198 pages, 5 line drawings, 30 tables 6 x 9
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1998
Series: Studies in Law and Economics
Cloth $59.00
ISBN: 9780226423753
Published April 1998
Paper $24.00
ISBN: 9780226423777
Published April 1998
Acknowledgments 1: The Dynamics of Institutional Change: An Analytical Framework 2: The Economic Benefits of Livestock Enclosure 3: Translating Economic Interest into Action: Distributional Conflicts and the Dynamics of Institutional Change 4: Resolving the Distributional Conflicts 5: The Politics of Property Rights 6: Uncovering the Ideology of Property Rights Reform in the Postbellum South 7: Property Rights and Populists: The Political Consequences of Livestock Enclosure Epilogue: A Note on Institutional Change, Efficiency, and Democracy App. A: Procedure Used to Calculate Expected Savings from the Stock Law App. B: Data Appendix to Carroll and Jackson County Election Regressions Notes References Index
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