Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Naomi R. Lamoreaux and John Joseph Wallis -- 1. The East Indian Monopoly and the Transition from Limited Access in England, 1600-1813 / Dan Bogart -- 2. Adam Smith's Theory of Violence and the Political Economics of Development / Barry R. Weingast -- 3. Pluralism without Privilege? Corps Intermédiaires, Civil Society, and the Art of Association / Jacob T. Levy -- 4. Banks, Politics, and Political Parties: From Partisan Banking to Open Access in Early Massachusetts / Qian Lu and John Joseph Wallis -- 5. Corporation Law and the Shift toward Open Access in the Antebellum United States / Eric Hilt -- 6. Organizational Poisedness and the Transformation of Civic Order in Nineteenth- Century New York City / Victoria Johnson and Walter W. Powell -- 7. Voluntary Associations, Corporate Rights, and the State: Legal Constraints on the Development of American Civil Society, 1750-1900 / Ruth H. Bloch and Naomi R. Lamoreaux -- 8. The Right to Associate and the Rights of Associations: Civil-Society Organizations in Prussia, 1794-1908 / Richard Brooks and Timothy W. Guinnane -- 9. Opening Access, Ending the Violence Trap: Labor, Business, Government, and the National Labor Relations Act / Margaret Levi, Tania Melo, Barry R. Weingast, and Frances Zlotnick -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index.