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Enterprising America businesses, banks, and credit markets in historical perspective

Title: Enterprising America [electronic resource] : businesses, banks, and credit markets in historical perspective / edited by William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo.
Author: Enterprising America: Businesses, Banks, and Credit Markets in Historical Perspective (Conference) (2013 : Nashville, Tenn.)
Publication: Chicago : London : The University of Chicago Press, [2015].

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1 online resource (ix, 287 pages) : illustrations.

Series Statement

National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Uniform Title

Enterprising America (Online)
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.

Alternative Title

Enterprising America (Online)

Subjects

Electronic books
Bank loans > United States > History > Congresses
Commercial credit > United States > History > Congresses
Business enterprises > United States > Finance > History > Congresses
Business enterprises > United States > History > Congresses

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Note

Papers of the conference "Enterprising America: businesses, banks, and credit markets in historical perspective", held at Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, on December 14, 2013.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

Introduction / William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo -- Business organization and internal governance. Revisiting American exceptionalism: democracy and the regulation of corporate governance: the case of nineteenth-century Pennsylvania in comparative context / Naomi R. Lamoreaux -- Corporate governance and the development of manufacturing enterprises in nineteenth-century Massachusetts / Eric Hilt ; comment: Claudia Rei ; The evolution of bank boards of directors in New York,1840-1950 / Howard Bodenhorn and Eugene N. White -- Bank behavior and credit markets. Did railroads make antebellum U.S. banks more sound? / Jeremy Atack, Matthew S. Jaremski, and Peter L. Rousseau ; Sources of credit and the extent of the credit market: a view from bankruptcy records, Mississippi 1929-1936 / Mary Eschelbach Hansen -- Scale economies in nineteenth century production. Economies of scale in nineteenth century American manufacturing revisited: a resolution of the entrepreneurial labor input problem / Robert A. Margo ; Were antebellum cotton plantations factories in the field? / Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode.

ISBN

9780226261621 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226261768 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015001694

OCLC

ssj0001544265

Conference

Enterprising America: Businesses, Banks, and Credit Markets in Historical Perspective (Conference) (2013 : Nashville, Tenn.)

Title

Enterprising America [electronic resource] : businesses, banks, and credit markets in historical perspective / edited by William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo.

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