Glaeser, Edward L.; Goldin, Claudia

Corruption and Reform - Lessons from America's Economic History : Lessons from America's Economics History

Acknowledgments ix I. Corruption And Reform: Definitions And Historical Trends Corruption and Reform: Introduction 3(20) Edward L. Glaeser Claudia Goldin The Concept of Systematic Corruption in American History 23(40) John Joseph Wallis Limiting the Reach of the Grabbing Hand: Graft and Growth in American Cities, 1880 to 1930 63(32) Rebecca Menes Digging the Dirt at Public Expense: Governance in the Building of the Erie Canal and Other Public Works 95(30) Stanley L. Engerman Kenneth L. Sokoloff II. Consequences Of Corruption Corporate Governance and the Plight of Minority Shareholders in the United States before the Great Depression 125(28) Naomi R. Lamoreaux Jean-Laurent Rosenthal Water, Water Everywhere: Municipal Finance and Water Supply in American Cities 153(34) David Cutler Grant Miller III. The Road To Reform The Rise of the Fourth Estate: How Newspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered 187(44) Matthew Gentzkow Edward L. Glaeser Claudia Goldin Bank Chartering and Political Corruption in Antebellum New York: Free Banking as Reform 231(28) Howard Bodenhorn Regime Change and Corruption: A History of Public Utility Regulation 259(26) Werner Troesken IV. Reform And Regulation The Irony of Reform: Did Large Employers Subvert Workplace Safety Reform, 1869 to 1930? 285(34) Price V. Fishback The Determinants of Progressive Era Reform: The Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 319(24) Marc T. Law Gary D. Libecap Politics, Relief, and Reform: Roosevelt's Efforts to Control Corruption and Political Manipulation during the New Deal 343(30) John Joseph Wallis Price V. Fishback Shawn Kantor Contributors 373(2) Author Index 375(6) Subject Index 381