Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History Volume 3 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hall, Joshua (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Witcher, Marcus (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Studies in Public Choice, 39
• Subjects: Welfare economics.; Economic history.; Economic policy.; America-Economic conditions.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy.; Economic History.; Economic Policy.; North American Economics.

This book is the third installment in a series of volumes looking at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective. Each chapter discusses citizens, special interests, and government officials responding to economic incentives in both markets and politics. In doing so, the b...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Club Women and the Provision of Local Public Goods
• 2. Samuel J. Tilden, Iron Money and the Election of 1876
• 3. The Impact of Decentralization on Municipalities: Evidence from the Municipal Home Rule Movement
• 4. Organized Opposition: The Anti-Federalist Political Network
• 5. Bootleggers and Baptists in the Passage of Federal Surface Mining Law
• 6. Pro-Consumer Legislation Supported by Elites: The Curious Case of the 1866 Post Roads Act
• 7. Economic History of Relationship between Congress and NASA: A Case Study of the Apollo Program
• 8. An Economic Interpretation of Rhode Island's 1788 Referendum on the Constitution
• 9. A Hard Day's Night: Provision of Public Evening Schools in the United States, 1870-1910
• 10. Rent-Seeking in 19th Century Banking: Evidence from Pennsylvania.