Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History

Edward Glaeser and Claudia Goldin

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Date: 2006
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Chapters in this book:

Corruption and Reform: Introduction , pp 3-22

Edward Glaeser and Claudia Goldin

The Concept of Systematic Corruption in American History , pp 23-62

John Joseph Wallis

Limiting the Reach of the Grabbing Hand. Graft and Growth in American Cities, 1880 to 1930 , pp 63-93

Rebecca Menes

Digging the Dirt at Public Expense: Digging the Dirt at Public Expense Erie Canal and Other Public Works , pp 95-122

Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff

Corporate Governance and the Plight of Minority Shareholders in the United States before the Great Depression , pp 125-152

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Water, Water Everywhere. Municipal Finance and Water Supply in American Cities , pp 153-183

David Cutler and Grant Miller

The Rise of the Fourth Estate. How Newspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered , pp 187-230

Matthew Gentzkow, Edward Glaeser and Claudia Goldin

Bank Chartering and Political Corruption in Antebellum New York. Free Banking as Reform , pp 231-257

Howard Bodenhorn

Regime Change and Corruption. A History of Public Utility Regulation , pp 259-281

Werner Troesken

The Irony of Reform. Did Large Employers Subvert Workplace Safety Reform, 1869 to 1930? , pp 285-318

Price Fishback

The Determinants of Progressive Era Reform. The Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 , pp 319-342

Marc Law and Gary Libecap

Politics, Relief, and Reform. Roosevelt's Efforts to Control Corruption and Political Manipulation during the New Deal , pp 343-372

John J. Wallis, Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor

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