EH.R: Query: Regulation in American federalism compared to regulation in the EU

[Price Fishback]

Another good place to get a broad overview of the role of federalism in the 
development of America is a book coming out May 1st in both hardback and 
paperback from the University of Chicago Press.

Government and the American Economy:  A New History.

The book is designed to bring much of the research over the past 30-40 
years on the history of government and the American economy to a broad 
readership.  It tells the chronological story spiced with chapters devoted 
to specific topics.  The co-authors are Price Fishback, Robert Higgs, Gary 
Libecap, John Joseph Wallis, Stanley Engerman, Jeffrey Hummel, Sumner 
LaCroix, Robert Margo, Robert McGuire, Richard Sylla, Lee Alston, Joseph 
Ferrie, Mark Guglielmo, E.C. Pasour, Jr., Randal Rucker, and Werner Troesken.

One of the key themes of the book is the changing role of the federal, 
state, and local governments in the economy over the course of American 
history.   If you are like me, you have read a large number of the articles 
and books written by these scholars.  But this is not a collection of 
articles.  It is a unified book that tells a story.   As we worked on the 
book, I was amazed at how much new I learned as the authors wove together 
their research with the research of other scholars and added numerous 
narratives that don't usually show up in most journal articles.

Price Fishback





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