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100 1 Murtazashvili, Ilia,|d1975-|0https://id.loc.gov/
authorities/names/n2011050642
245 14 The Political Economy of the American Frontier.
264 1 New York :|bCambridge University Press,|c2013.
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490 1 Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
500 Corporate Welfare and the Allocation of Western Land.
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 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.
505 8 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.
505 8 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?
505 8 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.
505 8 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.
520 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.
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