Economics of legal history
By: edited by Daniel Klerman, Carles L. and Ramona I. Hilliard Professor of Law and History, University of Southern California, USA
Series: Economic approaches to law -- 45; An Elgar research collection; Economic approaches to law -- 45.; Elgar research collection
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 783
ISBN-13: 9781783471683
Subjects: Law; Economic aspects; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Daniel Klerman; title: Toward a theory of property rights  -- Harold Demsetz; title: The allocation of property rights to land : US land policy and farm failure in the northern great plains  -- Zeynep K. Hansen and Gary D. Libecap; title: The political economy of the Securities Act of 1933  -- Paul G. Mahoney; title: Jurisdictional competition and the evolution of the common law  -- Daniel Klerman; title: Determining the impact of federal antidiscrimination policy on the economic status of blacks : a study of South Carolina  -- James J. Heckman and Brook S. Payner; title: Did women's suffrage change the size and scope of the government?  -- John R. Lott, Jr. and Lawrence W. Kenny; title: Women's suffrage, political responsiveness, and child survival in American history  -- Grant Miller; title: Constitutions and commitment : the evolution of institutions governing public choice in seventeenth-century England  -- Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast; title: Institutional reforms, financial development and sovereign debt : Britain 1690-1790  -- Nathan Sussman and Yishay Yafeh; title: The value of judicial independence : evidence from eighteenth century England  -- Daniel M. Klerman and Paul G. Mahoney; title: Did the Glorious Revolution contribute to the transport revolution? : Evidence from investment in roads and rivers  -- Dan Bogart; title: A theory of endogenous institutional change  -- Avner Greif and David D. Laitin; title: History lessons : the birth of impersonal exchange : the community responsibility system and impartial justice  -- Avner Greif; title: Creating and American property law : alienability and its limits in American history  -- Claire Priest; title: A hypothesis of wealth-maximalizing norms : evidence from the whaling industry  -- Robert C. Ellickson; title: Order without law? : Property rights during the California gold rush  -- Karen Clay and Gavin Wright; title: Reputation and coalitions in medieval trade : evidence of the Maghribi traders  -- Avner Greif; title: Currency policies and legal development in colonial New England  -- Claire Priest; title: The selection of 13th-century disputes for litigation  -- Daniel Klerman; title: The market for children : evidence from early modern Japan  -- J. Mark Ramseyer; title: Critical legal histories -- Robert W. Gordon.