Corruption and reform
Subtitle: lessons from America's economic history
By: edited by Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin.
Contributors: Glaeser, Edward L. 1967-; Goldin, Claudia Dale.
Series: A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Subjects: Corruption -- United States -- History.; Political corruption -- United States -- History.; Corporations -- Corrupt practices -- United States -- History.; Corruption -- United States -- Prevention -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Corruption and reform : introduction / Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin; title: The concept of systematic corruption in American history / John Joseph Wallis; title: Limiting the reach of the grabbing hand : graft and growth in American cities, 1880 to 1930 / Rebecca Menes; title: Digging the dirt at public expense : governance in the building of the Erie Canal and other public works / Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff; title: Corporate governance and the plight of minority shareholders in the United States before the Great Depression / Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal; title: Water, water everywhere : municipal finance and water supply in American cities / David Cutler and Grant Miller; title: The rise of the fourth estate : how newspapers became informative and why it mattered / Matthew Gentzkow, Edward L. Glaeser, and Claudia Goldin; title: Bank chartering and political corruption in antebellum New York : free banking as reform / Howard Bodenhorn; title: Regime change and corruption : a history of public utility regulation / Werner Troesken; title: The irony of reform : did large employers subvert workplace safety reform, 1869 to 1930? / Price V. Fishback; title: The determinants of progressive era reform : the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 / Marc T. Law and Gary D. Libecap; title: Politics, relief, and reform : Roosevelt's efforts to control corruption and political manipulation during the New Deal / John Joseph Wallis, Price V. Fishback, and Shawn Kantor.