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

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

The rise of America from a colonial outpost to one of the world's most sophisticated and productive economies was facilitated by the establishment of a variety of economic enterprises pursued within the framework of laws and institutions that set the rules for their organization and operation....

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Corporate Author: Enterprising America: Businesses, Banks, and Credit Markets in Historical Perspective (Conference) Nashville, Tenn.)
Other Authors: Collins, William J. (William Joseph), 1971- (Editor), Margo, Robert A. (Robert Andrew), 1954- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2015.
Series:National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
Subjects:
Business enterprises > United States > History > Congresses.
Business enterprises > United States > Finance > History > Congresses.
Commercial credit > United States > History > Congresses.
Bank loans > United States > History > Congresses.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Bank loans
Business enterprises
Business enterprises > Finance
Commercial credit
United States
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
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Table of 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.

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