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The Effect of Cost Heterogeneity in the Success and Failure of the New Deal's Agricultural and Industrial Programs

Alexander, Barbara; Libecap, Gary D. - In: Explorations in Economic History 37 (2000) 4, pp. 370-400

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Essays on the Great Depression. By Ben S. Bernanke. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. Pp. vii, 310. $35.00.

Alexander, Barbara J. - In: The Journal of Economic History 61 (2001) 01, pp. 247-249

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005422140

Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890 1943. By Patrick D. Reagan. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 362. $40.00. Civilizing Capitalism: The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era. By Landon R. Y. Storrs. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 392. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, ...

ALEXANDER, BARBARA J. - In: The Journal of Economic History 60 (2000) 04, pp. 1162-1164

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The Impact of the National Industrial Recovery Act on Cartel Formation and Maintenance Costs.

Alexander, Barbara - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 76 (1994) 2, pp. 245-54

Antitrust regime shifts represented by the 1933 adoption and 1935 annulment of the National Industrial Recovery Act are postulated to have effects analogous to temporary achievement of Bradburd and Over's 'integrative concentration level' (Bradburd and Over, 1982); a level at which cartel...

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Economics in the Long Run: New Deal Theorists and their Legacies, 1933–1993. By Theodore Rosenof. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. 222. $34.95.

Alexander, Barbara J. - In: The Journal of Economic History 58 (1998) 01, pp. 261-262

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Failed Cooperation in Heterogeneous Industries Under the National Recovery Administration

Alexander, Barbara J. - In: The Journal of Economic History 57 (1997) 02, pp. 322-344

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The Political Economy of the New Deal. By Jim F. Couch and William F. Shughart II. Northhampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 1998. Pp.247. $85.

Alexander, Barbara J. - In: The Journal of Economic History 59 (1999) 04, pp. 1127-1130

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005250657

Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890–1943. By Patrick D. Reagan. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 362. $40.00.Civilizing Capitalism. The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor Standards in the New Deal Era. By Landon R. Y. Storrs. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 392. $49.95, cloth; $19.95, ...

Alexander, Barbara J. - In: The Journal of Economic History 60 (2000) 04, pp. 1162-1164

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010568840

The economic evolution of petroleum property rights in the United States: a test of the Demsetz hypothesis.

Libecap, Gary; Smith, James L. - International Centre for Economic Research (ICER) - 2001

We examine Harold Demsetz’s (1967) prediction that property rights will emerge and be refined once the benefits of doing so exceed the costs. We follow the development of property rights to oil and gas deposits in the United States to test this prediction. The pattern of development has been...

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An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets: A Cross-Country Comparison

Grafton, R. Quentin; Libecap, Gary; McGlennon, Samuel; … - In: Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 5 (2011) 2, pp. 219-239

This article presents an integrated framework for assessing water markets in terms of their institutional foundations, economic efficiency, and environmental sustainability. This framework can be a tool for (a) comparing different water markets, (b) tracking performance over time, and (c)...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969929