Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Claudia Goldin, Gary D. Libecap. 1: The Origins of State Railroad Regulation: The Illinois Constitution of 1870 13 Mark T. Kanazawa, Roger G. Noll. 2: The Institutional Antecedents of State Utility Regulation: The Chicago Gas Industry, 1860 to 1913 55 Werner Troesken 3: Congress and Railroad Regulation: 1874 to 1887 81 Keith T. Poole, Howard Rosenthal. 4: The Interaction of Taxation and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Banking 121 John Joseph Wallis, Richard E. Sylla, John B. Legler. 5: The Origins of Federal Deposit Insurance 145 Charles W. Calomiris, Eugene N. White. 6: Political Bargaining and Cartelization in the New Deal: Orange Marketing Orders 189 Elizabeth Hoffman, Gary D. Libecap. 7: The Political Economy of Immigration Restriction in the United States, 1890 to 1921 223 Claudia Goldin 8: Coalition Formation and the Adoption of Workers' Compensation: The Case of Missouri, 1911 to 1926 259 Shawn Everett Kantor, Price V. Fishback. Contributors 299 Author Index 301 Subject Index 307

About the Author

Claudia Goldin is the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and director of the Development of the American Economy Program and research associate at the NBER. In 2023 she was a awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics "for having advanced our understanding of women's labour market outcomes. She the editor or coeditor of numerous NBER volumes
Gary D. Libecap is professor emeritus in the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at the University of California, Santa Barbara.