Introduction: beyond the boom -- The shale boom in historical perspective -- Local jurisdictions and variation in state law in the Marcellus Shale region -- How the legal framework of fracking in Appalachia disserves the poor -- Framing fracking through local lenses -- Using boomtown models to...

List of illustrations -- Preface : a vulnerable world -- Acknowledgments --- Introduction : the new normalcy -- Part I. crisis government in the great depression and world war II -- Vital systems -- Emergency government -- Part II. demobilization and remobilization -- Vulnerability --...

"Concentrated market power and the weakened sway of corporate stakeholders over management have emerged as leading concerns of American political economy. Samuel Milner provides a historical context for contemporary efforts to resolve these anxieties by examining the contest to control the...