Corruption and reform lessons from America's economic history /
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| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press,
2006.
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| Series: | National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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Table of Contents:
- Corruption and reform : introduction / Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin
- The concept of systematic corruption in American history / John Joseph Wallis
- Limiting the reach of the grabbing hand : graft and growth in American cities, 1880 to 1930 / Rebecca Menes
- Digging the dirt at public expense : governance in the building of the Erie Canal and other public works / Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff
- Corporate governance and the plight of minority shareholders in the United States before the Great Depression / Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
- Water, water everywhere : municipal finance and water supply in American cities / David Cutler and Grant Miller
- The rise of the fourth estate : how newspapers became informative and why it mattered / Matthew Gentzkow, Edward L. Glaeser, and Claudia Goldin
- Bank chartering and political corruption in antebellum New York : free banking as reform / Howard Bodenhorn
- Regime change and corruption : a history of public utility regulation / Werner Troesken
- The irony of reform : did large employers subvert workplace safety reform, 1869 to 1930? / Price V. Fishback
- The determinants of progressive era reform : the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 / Marc T. Law and Gary D. Libecap
- Politics, relief, and reform : Roosevelt's efforts to control corruption and political manipulation during the New Deal / John Joseph Wallis, Price V. Fishback, and Shawn Kantor.