The Evolution of a Nation : : How Geography and Law Shaped the American States / / Karen B. Clay, Daniel Berkowitz.
Although political and legal institutions are essential to any nation's economic development, the forces that have shaped these institutions are poorly understood. Drawing on rich evidence about the development of the American states from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century, this b...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ;
37 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 58 line illus. 48 tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Legal Initial Conditions
- 3. Initial Conditions and State Political Competition
- 4. The Mechanism
- 5. State Courts
- 6. Legislatures and Courts
- 7. Institutions and Outcomes
- References
- Index