Dedication   v   Price Fishback List of Tables and Figures  xiii About the Authors   xv Foreword xvii   Douglass C. North 1. Government and the Economy   Price Fishback 2. Goverment in Colonial America   Stanley L. Engerman 3. The Founding Era, 1774-1791   Robert A. McGuire 4. Property Rights and Federal Land Policy   Gary D.

Libecap 5. Reversing Financial Reversals: Government and the Financial System since 1789   Richard Sylla 6. The National Era   John Joseph Wallis 7. The Civil War and Reconstruction   Jeffrey Rogers Hummel 8. Government and the American Dilemma    Robert A. Margo 9. The Gilded Age   Mark Guglielmo and Werner Troesken 10. The Progressive Era   Price Fishback 11.

Government and the People: Labor, Education, and Health   Sumner J. La Croix 12. The Federal Bureaucracy: From Patronage to Civil Service    Gary D. Libecap 13. The New Deal   Price Fishback 14. The World Wars   Robert Higgs 15. The Growth of U.S.

Farm Programs   Randal R. Rucker and E. C. Pasour Jr. 16. Shaping Welfare Policy: The Role of the South   Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie 17.

Seeking Security in the Postwar Era   Price Fishback Appendix A. Key Indicators of Economic and Government Activity  John Joseph Wallis and Price Fishback Appendix B. The Articles of the Confederation Appendix C. The Constitution of the United States Appendix D. The Bill of Rights Index.