Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2009
1 This dissertation was completed in 1990 at the Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the California Institute of Technology under the guidance of J. Morgan Kousser and Lance E. Davis. Financial support for this research was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, and the Anna and James McDonnell Memorial Scholarship Fund.
2 Demsetz, Harold, “Toward a Theory of Property Rights,” American Economic Review, 57 (05 1967), pp. 347–59.Google ScholarDavis, Lance E. and North, Douglass C., Institutional Change and American Economic Growth (Cambridge, 1971).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
3 Jefferson Forest News, 04 23, 1880.Google Scholar