The Political Economy of the American Frontier

By:

Ilia Murtazashvili

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Hardback

Series:

Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions

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This book offers an analytical explanation for the origins of and change in property institutions on the American frontier during the nineteenth century. Its scope is interdisciplinary, integrating insights from political science, economics, law and history. This book shows how claim clubs - informal governments established by squatters in each of the major frontier sectors of agriculture, mining, logging and ranching - substituted for the state as a source of private property institutions and how they changed the course of who received a legal title, and for what price, throughout the nineteenth century. Unlike existing analytical studies of the frontier that emphasize one or two sectors, this book considers all major sectors, as well as the relationship between informal and formal property institutions, while also proposing a novel theory of emergence and change in property institutions that provides a framework to interpret the complicated history of land laws in the United States.

Author Biography:

Ilia Murtazashvili is currently an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. He holds a PhD in political science and an MA in agricultural and applied economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Murtazashvili's research focuses on political economy and institutional design. He is the co-author, with Donald Alexander Downs, of Arms and the University: Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-Military Students (Cambridge, 2012).

Release date NZ

September 16th, 2013

Author

Ilia Murtazashvili

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

17 Tables, unspecified

Pages

297

Series

Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions

Dimensions

156x235x22

ISBN-13

9781107019126

Product ID

21233334

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