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1 online resource (304 pages). |
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Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
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Political economy of institutions and decisions.
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Contents |
List of Maps, Figure, and Tables; Preface; 1 Introduction; Claim Clubs: A Few Examples; Three Levels of Social Control; Claim Clubs and the Process of Institutional Change; The Frontier of This Book; Part I The Origins of Private Property Institutions; 2 A Theory of Claim Clubs; Spontaneous Order and Its Limits; Spontaneous Emergence of Institutions; Breakdown of Spontaneously Arising Institutions; Political Theories of the Origins of Property Institutions; Private-Order Governments: How Claim Clubs Substitute for the State; Are Claim Clubs "Spontaneous Order?"; Conclusion. |
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3 The Constitution of Claim ClubsAgricultural Land; First-Possession Norms: How Farmers Allocated Land without Conscious Design or Enforcement; The Fair Play System; The Proliferation of Agricultural Claim Clubs; The Constitution of Agricultural Clubs; The Demise of Agricultural Claim Clubs; Mineral Land; Claim Clubs and the California Gold Rush; Mining Camps: The First Organizations on the Gold Fields; Mining Districts: The Political Origins of Property Institutions on the Gold Fields; Claim Clubs, Property Institutions, and Nevada's Mining Boom. |
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Did Miners Establish Private Property Institutions?Timberland; Rangeland; Conclusion: Does the Theory Fit the Facts?; Appendix to Chapter 3: Examples of Claim Club Constitutions; 4 Rivals to the State; Clarity of Allocation; Alienability; Security from Trespass; Credibility of Persistence; Conclusion to Part I; Part II Change in Private Property Institutions; 5 The Distributive Politics of Squatters' Rights; Efficiency and Distributive Perspectives on Institutional Change; An Efficiency Hypothesis; A Distributive Hypothesis; Is This Land Worth the Trouble? |
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Are You Sure You Want to Throw Your Hat In?You're Not Welcome Here; This Land Is My Land; Give Them an Inch and They Take a Mile; Squatters' Rights and the Process of Institutional Change; The Status Quo: State Ownership; The Creation of Land Markets in the Post-Revolutionary Period; The Decline of Competitive Markets for Agricultural Land; Squatters' Rights as a Test of Competing Theories; Were Squatters' Rights "Efficient?"; Conclusion: The Distributive Politcs of Squatters' Rights; 6 The Political Economy of Free Land; Who Wants Free Land? Hypotheses for Institutional Change. |
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Econometric Analysis of Homestead Votes, 1852-60House and Senate Votes, 1852; House and Senate Votes, 1854; House and Senate Votes, 1859 and 1860; National Security and the Veto of the Homestead Bill; Economic Analysis of Homesteads; Land and the Welfare State; 7 The Open Floodgate in the Far West; The Mining Act of 1866: Efficient Instituitonal Change or the Fruit of Rent Seeking?; Property Rights to Timberland; The Politics of Property Rights on the Open Range; Revenue Lost: Assessing Alternative Explanations; Collateral Effects: Land Laws and Speculation. |
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Corporate Welfare and the Allocation of Western Land. |
Summary |
Demonstrates why claim clubs are perhaps the most important explanation for the origins of and change in property institutions during an important period in American history. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Land tenure -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Land tenure. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Land settlement -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Land settlement. |
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Land claim associations -- History -- 19th century.
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Land claim associations. |
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects. |
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Mines and mineral resources -- Economic aspects -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Mines and mineral resources -- Economic aspects. |
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Mines and mineral resources. |
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Logging -- Economic aspects -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Logging -- Economic aspects. |
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Logging. |
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Ranching -- Economic aspects -- West (U.S.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Ranching -- Economic aspects. |
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Ranching. |
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Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.)
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Frontier and pioneer life. |
Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Murtazashvili, Ilia. Political Economy of the American Frontier. New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2013 9781107019126 |
ISBN |
9781107419179 |
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1107419174 |
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9781107416468 |
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1107416469 |
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9781139094092 |
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1139094092 |
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9781107019126 |
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1107019125 |