Lobbyists and the Making of US Tariff Policy, 1816−1861

Peart, Daniel

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“…Less extreme forms of rent-seeking entrepreneurship can be seen in many of the regulations that governed economic exchange among members of the white population of the United States and between American whites and the outside world (Hall & Witcher, 2018). However, in the decades after the ratification of the Constitution there was a general move toward greater EF that saw the dismantling of many colonial-era regulations (Ely, 2008, p. 703;Lamoreaux & Wallis, 2020;Peart, 2018;Pincus, 1975).…”

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Informal Institutions as Inhibitors of Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: Evidence From U.S. Legal History

Smith

Brownlow

2022

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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Rent-seeking entrepreneurship occurs whenever an entrepreneur expends resources on activities that benefit their firm while reducing overall economic efficiency. Since rent-seeking ultimately makes nations poorer, we need to know more about how institutions can discourage rent-seeking entrepreneurship. Using historical data from the Unites States, we explore how changes in judicial thinking altered individuals’ incentives to engage in rent-seeking entrepreneurship. Traditionally, entrepreneurship researchers interested in policy issues have paid little attention to changes in judicial thinking. We argue that entrepreneurship researchers who are interested in why levels of entrepreneurial dynamism vary over time should pay more attention to how judges think.

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Informal Institutions as Inhibitors of Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: Evidence From U.S. Legal History

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Brownlow

2022

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

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The American Institute and the Problem of Interest Group Mobilization in Antebellum United States

Öhman¹

2020

Enterp. Soc.

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This article explores the formation and early history of the American Institute of the City of New-York, which in the 1830s became the leading lobby association of “friends of industry” in the United States. More specifically, the article considers how the institute’s officers sought to overcome obstacles of collective mobilization that had plagued earlier pro-industry associations. Pre–Civil War interest groups is an understudied area, and historians typically depict the years following in the Compromise of 1833 as a period essentially devoid of pro-industry agitation. However, it was in precisely in these years that friends of industry for the first time managed to obtain the resources necessary for sustained mobilization. Key to the American Institute’s success, this article argues, was the development of annual manufacturing fairs, events that provided steady revenue, strengthened internal cohesion, attracted new members, facilitated coordination with like-minded groups, and provided opportunities to engage in popular politics in an ordered manner.

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A World by Themselves: Protectionism and the Political Economy of Trade in the Ohio Valley, 1816–1828

Harris

2024

Enterp. Soc.

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This paper explores American tariff politics and the embrace of protectionism within the Ohio Valley in the two decades following the War of 1812. During these years, residents of the western states navigated the emergence of steam transportation, a growing number of state-chartered banks, and intense population growth. This fueled an economic boom that went bust during the Panic of 1819. Western farmers, merchants, and manufacturers blamed harmful patterns of trade for this economic crisis, which bolstered a distinct regional identity that embraced a properly constructed restrictive tariff as a “western” measure. Consequently, the decade of the 1820s featured the most sustained period of conflict over the tariff issue in the antebellum era. This article examines western participation in conflicts over commerce and roots the political economy of trade policy in changing economic conditions that inspired distinct northern, southern, and western perspectives on trade and economic development. I conclude that both protectionist claims to economic nationalism and free trade embrace of international exchange overlook the individual assessments of local and regional markets that set the terms on which participants in the tariff debates of the early republic imagined future development.

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Lobbyists and the Making of US Tariff Policy, 1816−1861

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Informal Institutions as Inhibitors of Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: Evidence From U.S. Legal History

Informal Institutions as Inhibitors of Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: Evidence From U.S. Legal History

The American Institute and the Problem of Interest Group Mobilization in Antebellum United States

A World by Themselves: Protectionism and the Political Economy of Trade in the Ohio Valley, 1816–1828

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