Founding choices : American economic policy in the 1790s / / edited by Douglas A. Irwin and Richard Sylla.

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Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:ix, 353 p. :; ill.
Notes:Papers of the National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Dartmouth College on May 8-9, 2009.
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Table of 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.