Corporation Law and the Shift toward Open Access in the Antebellum United States

Eric Hilt

NBER Working Paper No. 21195
Issued in May 2015

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I would like to thank Naomi Lamoreaux, Tim Guinnane, Richard Brooks, and John Wallis, along with participants at the NBER Civil Society conference held at Yale University, for helpful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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