Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 The Origins of State Railroad Regulation: The Illinois Constitution of 1870 13
5. 2 The Institutional Antecedents of State Utility Regulation: The Chicago Gas Industry, 1860 to 1913 55
6. 3 Congress and Railroad Regulation: 1874 to 1887 81
7. 4 The Interaction of Taxation and Regulation in Nineteenth- Century U.S. Banking 121
8. 5 The Origins of Federal Deposit Insurance 145
9. 6 Political Bargaining and Cartelization in the New Deal: Orange Marketing Orders 189
10. 7 The Political Economy of Immigration Restriction in the United States, 1890 to 1921 223
11. 8 Coalition Formation and the Adoption of Workers’ Compensation: The Case of Missouri, 191 1 to 1926 259
12. Contributors 299
13. Author Index 301
14. Subject Index 307