This book contains eight papers focusing on factors associated with the growth of government. There is a large literature in public economics, especially public choice, on the determinants of the growth of government. The papers in this volume focus on a number of arguments related to why...

Introduction -- Part I Land Use -- Chapter 1. The Case for Dynamic Cities -- Chapter 2. What’s Wrong with American Land Use: Market Failures, Bad Policies, or Politics? -- Part II. Education -- Chapter 3. Funding Students Instead of Systems: The Case for School Choice,” -- Chapter 4. The...

Urbanization, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Progressive Era, 1899-1929 -- The Continuing Puzzle of Hypertension among African Americans: Developmental Origins and the Mid-century Socioeconomic Transformation -- Health and Safety vs. Freedom of Contract: The Tortured Path of Wage and Hours...