Calendrier du 29 mars 2023
Histoire des entreprises et de la finance
Du 29/03/2023 de 16:00 à 17:30
R1-14 Campus Jourdan
RUTHERFORD Janette (The Open University)
The forgotten activists: UK and USA shareholder committees of investigation, 1890-1940
Economic History Seminar
Du 29/03/2023 de 12:00 à 13:30
Salle R1.09, Campus Jourdan
MAGGOR Noam (IEA Paris)
Freights and Rates: Railroad Regulation as American Industrial Policy
This paper examines the controversy over railroad freight rate regulation in the late nineteenth century United States. Did state railroad commissions have the right to dictate shipping rates to the railroad industry - the biggest and most strategically important economic sector in this period - and, if yes, what would be the consequences? It shows that advocates of rate regulation, who mostly hailed from the American periphery, envisioned government control over prices as a form of developmental industrial policy. They sought to avoid American dependence on resource extraction and protect producers on the western frontier. They were remarkably successful, with important implications for the economic geography of the U.S., patterns of regional inequality, and nature of American institutions