Enterprising America : businesses, banks, and credit markets in historical perspective

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo -- I. Business Organization and Internal Governance -- 1. Revisiting American Exceptionalism: Democracy and the Regulation of Corporate Governance: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania in Comparative Context - Naomi R. Lamoreaux -- 2. Corporate Governance and the Development of Manufacturing Enterprises in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts - Eric Hilt -- Comment: Claudia Rei -- 3. The Evolution of Bank Boards of Directors in New York, 1840-1950 - Howard Bodenhorn and Eugene N. White -- II. Bank Behavior and Credit Markets -- 4. Did Railroads Make Antebellum US Banks More Sound? - Jeremy Atack, Matthew S. Jaremski, and Peter L. Rousseau -- 5. Sources of Credit and the Extent of the Credit Market: A View from Bankruptcy Records in Mississippi, 1929-1936 - Mary Eschelbach Hansen -- III. Scale Economies in Nineteenth-Century Production -- 6. Economies of Scale in Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing Revisited: A Resolution of the Entrepreneurial Labor Input Problem - Robert A. Margo -- 7. Were Antebellum Cotton Plantations Factories in the Field? - Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.