Public Choice Interpretations of American Economic History

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Public Goods and Private Interests: An Explanation for State Compliance with Federal Requisitions, 1777–1789

Chapter 3 State Constitutional Reform and the Structure of Government Finance in the Nineteenth Century

Chapter 4 Property Rights in the American West: The Tragedy of the Commons or the Tragedy of Transactions Costs?

Chapter 5 Did the Trusts Want a Federal Antitrust Law? An Event Study of State Antitrust Enforcement and Passage of the Sherman Act

Chapter 7 Public Choice and the Success of Government-Sponsored Cartels: The Different Experience of New Deal Agricultural and Industrial Policies

Chapter 8 Federal Reserve Membership and the Banking Act of 1935: An Application to the Theory of Clubs

Chapter 9 Local Liquor Control from 1934 to 1970