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

Other author/creatorIrwin, Douglas A., 1962-
Other author/creatorSylla, Richard Eugene.
Other author/creatorNational Bureau of Economic Research.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press,
Descriptionix, 353 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report. ^A475763
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.
General notePapers of the National Bureau of Economic Research conference held at Dartmouth College on May 8-9, 2009.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2010015033
ISBN9780226384740 (alk. paper)
ISBN0226384748 (alk. paper)
ISBN9780226384757 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0226384756 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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