The evolution of a nation
Subtitle: how geography and law shaped the American states
By: Daniel Berkowitz and Karen B. Clay
Contributors: Clay, Karen B.
Series: The Princeton economic history of the western world; Princeton economic history of the Western world
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780691136042
Subjects: Politics and government; States; Law; Economic conditions; State governments; U.S. states; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-221) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Legal initial conditions; title: Initial conditions and state political competition; title: The mechanism; title: State courts; title: Legislatures and courts; title: Institutions and outcomes.