Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History

Chapter 1 Club Women and the Provision of Local Public Goods

Chapter 2 Samuel J. Tilden, Iron Money and the Election of 1876

Chapter 3 The Impact of Decentralization on Municipalities: Evidence from the Municipal Home Rule Movement

Chapter 4 Organized Opposition: The Anti-Federalist Political Network

Chapter 5 Bootleggers and Baptists in the Passage of Federal Surface Mining Law

Chapter 6 Pro-consumer Legislation Supported by Elites: The Curious Case of the 1866 Post Roads Act

Chapter 7 Economic History of the Relationship Between Congress and NASA: A Case Study of the Apollo Program

Chapter 8 An Economic Interpretation of Rhode Island’s 1788 Referendum on the Constitution

Chapter 9 A Hard Day’s Night: Provision of Public Evening Schools in the United States, 1870–1910

Chapter 10 Private Seeking of Private Monopoly in Early American Banking