| Contents |
Introduction / Naomi R. Lamoreaux and John Joseph Wallis -- The East Indian monopoly and the transition from limited access in England, 1600-1813 / Dan Bogart -- Adam Smith's theory of violence and the political economics of development / Barry R. Weingast -- Pluralism without privilege? corps intermédiaires, civil society, and the art of association / Jacob T. Levy -- Banks, politics, and political parties: from partisan banking to open access in early Massachusetts / Qian Lu and John Joseph Wallis -- Corporation law and the shift toward open access in the antebellum United States / Eric Hilt -- Organizational poisedness and the transformation of civic order in 19th-century New York City / Victoria Johnson and Walter W. Powell -- Voluntary associations, corporate rights, and the state: legal constraints on the development of American civil society, 1750-1900 / Ruth H. Bloch and Naomi R. Lamoreaux -- The right to associate and the rights of associations: civil-society organizations in Prussia, 1794-1908 / Richard Brooks and Timothy W. Guinnane -- Opening access, ending the violence trap: labor, business, government, and the National Labor Relations act / Margaret Levi, Tania Melo, Barry R. Weingast, and Frances Zlotnick. |
