Enterprising America: Businesses, Banks, and Credit Markets in Historical Perspective
William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo, editors
Conference held December 14, 2013
Published in September 2015 by University of Chicago Press
© 2015 by the National Bureau of Economic Research
NBER Program(s):DAE, AP
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287 pages
ISBN: 0-226-26162-X
Table of Contents
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Front matter, acknowledgments, table of contents:
William J. Collins, Robert A. Margo
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Introduction:
William J. Collins, Robert A. Margo
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Revisiting American Exceptionalism: Democracy and the Regulation of Corporate Governance: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania in Comparative Context:
Naomi R. Lamoreaux
(p. 25 - 71)
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Corporate Governance and the Development of Manufacturing Enterprises in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts:
Eric Hilt
(p. 73 - 102)
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Comment:
Claudia Rei
(p. 102 - 106)
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The Evolution of Bank Boards of Directors in New York, 1840–1950:
Howard Bodenhorn, Eugene N. White
(p. 107 - 145)
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Did Railroads Make Antebellum U.S. Banks More Sound?:
Jeremy Atack, Matthew S. Jaremski, Peter L. Rousseau
(p. 149 - 178)
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Sources of Credit and the Extent of the Credit Market: A View from Bankruptcy Records in Mississippi, 1929–1936:
Mary Eschelbach Hansen
(p. 179 - 212)
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Economies of Scale in Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing Revisited: A Resolution of the Entrepreneurial Labor Input Problem:
Robert A. Margo
(p. 215 - 244)
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Were Antebellum Cotton Plantations Factories in the Field?:
Alan L. Olmstead, Paul W. Rhode
(p. 245 - 276)
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List of contributors, indexes:
William J. Collins, Robert A. Margo
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