1.
Trade Disputes Between China and the United States: Growing Pains so Far, Worse Ahead?
Peterson Institute for International Economics Working Paper No. 10-17
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 14 Dec 2010
Last Revised: 28 Jan 2011
Working Paper Series
Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics and Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics
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2.
Newspapers and Parties: How Advertising Revenues Created an Independent Press
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 03 Apr 2007
Last Revised: 17 Aug 2011
Working Paper Series
Institute for Political Economy and Governance, Barcelona
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405
3.
A Mark of Distinction: Branding and Trade Mark Law in the UK from the 1860s
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 27 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 22 Oct 2009
Working Paper Series
Independent
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377
4.
The Quasi War Cases—And Their Relevance to Whether Letters of Marque and Reprisal Constrain Presidential War Powers
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 465-500, Spring 2005
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 17 Aug 2004
Last Revised: 02 Nov 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Criterion Economics, Inc.
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5.
The Origins of U.S. Total Factor Productivity Growth in the Golden Age
Cliometrica, No. 1, pp. 63-90, April 2007
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 22 Feb 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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6.
The Pro-Trade Effect of Immigration on American Exports During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 14 Oct 2001
Working Paper Series
Miami University and Vanderbilt University - College of Arts and Science - Department of Economics
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7.
The Legal History of Federally Granted Railroad Rights of Way and the Myth of Congress's '1871 Shift'
University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 82, No. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 80
Posted: 09 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 30 Dec 2010
Accepted Paper Series
U.S. Attorney's Office
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8.
Learning to Disclose: Disclosure Dynamics in the 1890s Streetcar Industry
Number of pages: 74
Posted: 18 Feb 2021
Working Paper Series
Columbia Business School - Accounting, Business Law & Taxation, Columbia University and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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217
9.
Anaerobic Digestion as a Renewable Energy Source and Waste Management Technology: What Must Be Done for this Technology to Realize Success in the United States?
University of Massachusetts Law Review, Vol. 9, 2014
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 07 Apr 2014
Last Revised: 12 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Washburn University School of Law
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10.
Antitrust Energy
Southern California Law Review, Vol. 85, 2012, Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 12-15
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 17 May 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Arizona and USC Gould School of Law
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202
11.
America's Toll Roads Heritage: The Achievements of Private Initiative in the 19th Century
Scandinavian Economics Working Paper No. 30, Chap. 12, pp. 305-325 in Gabriel Roth, ed., Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads (Transaction Publishers, 2006).
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 19 Jan 2004
Last Revised: 30 Aug 2021
Working Paper Series
George Mason University - Department of Economics and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Department of Economics
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200
12.
American Shipping Cartels in the Pre-World War I Era
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 24 May 1999
Working Paper Series
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics, Drexel University and University of Vermont - Department of Economics
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197
13.
Collusive Investments in Technological Compatibility: Lessons from U.S. Railroads in the Late 19th Century
Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper No. 17-044
Number of pages: 80
Posted: 23 Mar 2016
Last Revised: 24 Sep 2019
Working Paper Series
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Collusive Investments in Technological Compatibility: Lessons from U.S. Railroads in the Late 19th Century
Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper No. 17-044
Number of pages: 80
Posted: 23 Mar 2016
Last Revised: 24 Sep 2019
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Collusive Investments in Technological Compatibility: Lessons from U.S. Railroads in the Late 19th Century
NBER Working Paper No. w26261
Number of pages: 79
Posted: 18 Sep 2019
Last Revised: 04 Apr 2021
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5
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169
14.
The Economics of Speed: The Electrification of the Streetcar System and the Decline of Mom-and-Pop Stores in Boston, 1885-1905
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 16 Jul 2020
Working Paper Series
Peking University
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162
15.
Reinvigorating Innovation: Lessons Learned from the Wright Brothers
Contract Management, Volume 56, Page 46 (April 2016), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2016-8, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-8
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 06 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
George Washington University - Law School and Arnold & Porter
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141
16.
The Role of Natural Gas in the Clean Power Plan
John Marshall Law Review, Vol. 49, pp. 325-375, 2016, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 192
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 17 Nov 2016
Last Revised: 07 Jan 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Ohio State University (OSU) - Michael E. Moritz College of Law and University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law
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133
17.
Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women’s Temperance Crusade
Number of pages: 94
Posted: 16 Aug 2021
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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18.
The Right of Publicity's Intellectual Property Turn
Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Vol. 42, No. 3, 2019, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-21
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 31 Jul 2019
Last Revised: 12 Aug 2019
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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19.
The Antebellum Tariff on Cotton Textiles Revisited
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 26 Sep 2000
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Antebellum Tariff on Cotton Textiles Revisited
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 26 Sep 2000
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The Antebellum Tariff on Cotton Textiles Revisited
NBER Working Paper No. w7825
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 01 Aug 2000
Last Revised: 07 Mar 2003
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129
20.
Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System
Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 91 (2019), Columbia Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 90
Posted: 14 Mar 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Nottingham, School of Economics
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123
21.
Federalism, Free Trade within Canada, and the British North America Act, S.121
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 04 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
Independent
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120
22.
The 'Confederate' Blockade of the South
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 02 Jun 2012
Working Paper Series
Senior FellowAuburn University, College of Business,Department of Economics and Auburn University - Department of Economics
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118
23.
Modern Business Enterprise as a Capital Saving Innovation
Journal of Economic History, Vol. 47, pp. 473-485, June 1987
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 19 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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114
24.
Does America Really Need More Infrastructure? Lessons from the Debate About the Role of the Railroads in the Development of the American West
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 04 Feb 2008
Working Paper Series
University of Canberra
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25.
U.S. and Canadian Federalism: Implications for International Trade Regulation
West Virginia Law Review, Vol. 114, No. 3, 2012, WVU Law Research Paper No. 2012-06
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 18 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 23 Aug 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Roger Williams University School of Law
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26.
The Relative Productivity of American Distribution, 1869-1992
Research in Economic History, Vol. 16, pp. 1-37, 1996
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 20 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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84
27.
The Magnetic Telegraph, Price and Quantity Data, and the New Management of Capital
Journal of Economic History, Vol. 52, pp. 401-413, June 1992
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 20 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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81
28.
Monetary Policy and the Copper Price Bust: A Reassessment of the Causes of the Panic of 1907
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 14 Nov 2017
Last Revised: 22 Nov 2017
Working Paper Series
State University of New York at Oswego and Benedictine University - Office of Academic Affairs
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72
29.
Viking's 'Semantic Gaps': Law and the Political Economy of Convergence in the EU
In Bill Davies and Fernanda Nicola, eds., EU Law Stories: Critical and Contextual Histories of European Jurisprudence (Cambridge University Press 2017)
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 11 May 2015
Last Revised: 25 Jun 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Connecticut School of Lawaffiliation not provided to SSRN
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30.
Storage Under Backwardation: A Direct Test of the Wright-Williams Conjecture
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 07 Jan 2009
Working Paper Series
Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Trust
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68
31.
America’s First Culinary Revolution, or How a Girl from Gopher Prairie Came to Dine on Eggs Fooyung
ECONOMIC EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTIONS IN HISTORICAL TIME, pp. 419-445, Paul Rhode, Joshua Rosenbloom, David Weiman, eds., Stanford University Press, 2011
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 10 Apr 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Riverside
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32.
Oliver Evans and the Framing of American Patent Law
Case Western Reserve Law Review, Vol. 71, No. 2, 2020
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 07 Oct 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Brooklyn Law School
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33.
Not What it Used to Be: The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volumes II and III
Journal of Economic History, No. 61, pp. 806-818, September 2001
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 30 Apr 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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62
34.
The Farm Debut of the Gasoline Engine
GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 11-20
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 06 May 2011
Working Paper Series
George Mason University - Department of Economics
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62
35.
Enterprise Forms and Accounting Conventions in Two 18th-Century Newfoundland Mercantile Concerns
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 06 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 11 Mar 2012
Working Paper Series
Mount Royal University - Bissett School of Business
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59
36.
Let the Preseason Begin: Want to Play?
Green Bag 2d, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 235-243, Winter 2009, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 09-16
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 09 Mar 2009
Last Revised: 12 Dec 2012
Accepted Paper Series
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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37.
Determinants of Profitability of US Class I Freight Railroads
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 20 Oct 2013
Working Paper Series
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
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56
38.
The Relative Stability of German and American Industrial Growth, 1880-1913: A Comparative Analysis
WACHSTUMSZYKLEN DER DEUTSCHEN WIRTSCHAFT, W.H. Schroder, R. Spree, eds., pp. 208-232, Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1980
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 01 May 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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39.
Cartel Organization, Price Discrimination and the Trans-Atlantic Passage, 1899-1911
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 12 Sep 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics and University of Vermont - Department of Economics
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55
40.
The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 19 May 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics
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54
41.
New Bank and Transportation Stock Indexes from 1793 to 1871, with Comparisons Across Region and Sector, and Against Prior Indexes
Number of pages: 140
Posted: 12 Nov 2019
Last Revised: 18 Mar 2021
Working Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business
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48
42.
Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing
University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2019-146
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 02 Jan 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and New York University (NYU)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing
University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2019-146
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 02 Jan 2020
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Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing
NBER Working Paper No. w26594
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 31 Dec 2019
Last Revised: 01 Sep 2021
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7
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44
43.
FantasyLaw 2009: The Season, the Stars, and the Statistics
Green Bag 2d, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 229-247, Winter 2010, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 10-08
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 25 Jan 2010
Accepted Paper Series
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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44.
The US Railroads - Their Evolution, Structure and Operations Part II
IRT Journal Vol XXI No III, July-September 2012
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 10 Sep 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
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45.
Farming Output, Concentration, and Market Access: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century American Railroad Expansion
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 28 Oct 2020
Last Revised: 18 Oct 2021
Working Paper Series
Wilfrid Laurier University
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46.
Blood on the Tracks: Turn-of-the-Century Streetcar Injuries, Claims, and Litigation in Alameda County, California
U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 175
Posted: 08 Oct 2019
Last Revised: 24 Sep 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
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47.
Historical Perspective (of the Chesapeake Bay)
Prof. Garrett Power, CHESAPEAKE BAY IN LEGAL PERSPECTIVE, Part 1, pp. 5-80, Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, March 1970
Number of pages: 110
Posted: 29 Oct 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of Baltimore - School of Law
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48.
The US Railroads - Their Evolution, Structure and Operations Part 1
IRT Journal, Vol XXI I & II, Jan-Jun 2012, pp 9-29
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 10 Sep 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
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37
49.
Rust Buckets: How the Jones Act Undermines U.S. Shipbuilding and National Security
Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 882
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 05 Dec 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Cato Institute
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32
50.
The Effect of Transport Infrastructure on Home Production Activity: Evidence from Rural New York, 1825–1845
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 08 Feb 2012
Last Revised: 10 Feb 2012
Working Paper Series
Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Trust
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30
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