Shawn Everett Kantor
Biographic Data
| ID | 2135472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shawn Everett Kantor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shawn Everett |
| FAMILY NAME | Kantor |
| SIGNATURE | KANTOR S E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origin of Workers' Compensation
Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South
After the American Civil War, agricultural reformers in the South called for an end to unrestricted grazing of livestock on unfenced land. They advocated the stock law, which required livestock owners to fence in their animals, arguing that the existing system (in which farmers built protective fences around crops) was outdated and inhibited economic growth. The reformers steadily won their battles, and by the end of the century the range was on …
Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South
Journal Article Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South. By Shawn Everett Kantor. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. x, 187 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-226-42375-1. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-226-42377-8.) Get access Jonathan M. Bryant Jonathan M. Bryant Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histor…
The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910–1930
Precautionary Saving, Insurance, and the Origins of Workers' Compensation
In this article, the authors test whether the introduction of social insurance has led to a reduction in private insurance purchases and precautionary saving by examining the introduction of workers' compensation. Their empirical analysis is based on the financial decisions of over 7,000 households surveyed for the 1917-19 Bureau of Labor Statistics cost-of-living study. The authors find that the presence of workers' compensation at least partial…
The Durable Experiment: State Insurance of Workers' Compensation Risk in the Early Twentieth Century
In the early 1910s state governments debated the private versus public underwriting of workers' compensation risk. The choices they made established the existing system today and set the stage for later debates over the government's underwriting of unemployment, health, and disability risks. This article offers both quantitative and case-study analyses of states' original choices between public and private insurance. Monopoly state funds were ado…
Supplanting the Roots of Southern Populism: The Contours of Political Protest in the Georgia Hills
Steven Hahn, in his influential book The Roots of Southern Populism , viewed Populism in the Georgia Up-country as the culmination of a long-standing protest against the economic and social effects of commercialization in regions that were relatively isolated prior to the Civil War. In developing his explanation for the rise of Populism, Hahn emphasized the close relationship between voting for Populism in the 1890s and voting to keep the range o…
The Political Economy of Coalition-Formation: The Case of Livestock Enclosure in the Postbellum South
Economic behavior and institutions
Common Sense or Commonwealth? The Fence Law and Institutional Change in the Postbellum South
Shawn Everett Kantor, J. Morgan Kousser, Common Sense or Commonwealth? The Fence Law and Institutional Change in the Postbellum South, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 59, No. 2 (May, 1993), pp. 201-242
A Rejoinder: Two Visions of History
Square Deal” or Raw Deal? Market Compensation for Workplace Disamenities, 1884–1903
Early twentieth-century social reformers claimed that public insurance was necessary because employers ignored the financial needs of their unemployed, injured, or ill workers. Reformers dismissed the idea that competition in the labor market would boost the wages of workers who faced greater chances of job-related financial distress. This article reports a test of the compensating-wage-difference hypothesis on wage samples of men, women, and chi…
Property Rights and the Dynamics of Institutional Change: The Closing of the Georgia Open Range, 1870-1900
The traditional agricultural practice in Georgia from colonial times until after the Civil War allowed animals to roam the countryside freely and forced farmers to erect fences around their growing crops. All unfenced land, therefore, was considered common pasture that could be used by anyone. After the Civil War there was a concerted effort to eradicate the open range policy and to force all livestock owners to fence in their animals instead of …
Razorbacks, Ticky Cows, and the Closing of the Georgia Open Range: The Dynamics of Institutional Change Uncovered
This article attempts to explain why the adoption of potentially productive institutions is delayed and why inefficient ones persist by exploring the dynamics of institutional change in a particular historical case—the closing of the Georgia open range in the late nineteenth century. A closed range policy would have generated net benefits for specific regions of Georgia, but distributional conflicts, coupled with high transaction costs, made a vo…
Precautionary Saving, Insurance, and the Origins of Workers' Compensation
In this article, the authors test whether the introduction of social insurance has led to a reduction in private insurance purchases and precautionary saving by examining the introduction of workers' compensation. Their empirical analysis is based on the financial decisions of over 7,000 households surveyed for the 1917-19 Bureau of Labor Statistics cost-of-living study. The authors find that the presence of workers' compensation at least partial…
The Durable Experiment: State Insurance of Workers' Compensation Risk in the Early Twentieth Century
In the early 1910s state governments debated the private versus public underwriting of workers' compensation risk. The choices they made established the existing system today and set the stage for later debates over the government's underwriting of unemployment, health, and disability risks. This article offers both quantitative and case-study analyses of states' original choices between public and private insurance. Monopoly state funds were ado…
Square Deal” or Raw Deal? Market Compensation for Workplace Disamenities, 1884–1903
Early twentieth-century social reformers claimed that public insurance was necessary because employers ignored the financial needs of their unemployed, injured, or ill workers. Reformers dismissed the idea that competition in the labor market would boost the wages of workers who faced greater chances of job-related financial distress. This article reports a test of the compensating-wage-difference hypothesis on wage samples of men, women, and chi…
The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910–1930
Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South
Journal Article Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South. By Shawn Everett Kantor. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. x, 187 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-226-42375-1. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-226-42377-8.) Get access Jonathan M. Bryant Jonathan M. Bryant Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histor…
Razorbacks, Ticky Cows, and the Closing of the Georgia Open Range: The Dynamics of Institutional Change Uncovered
This article attempts to explain why the adoption of potentially productive institutions is delayed and why inefficient ones persist by exploring the dynamics of institutional change in a particular historical case—the closing of the Georgia open range in the late nineteenth century. A closed range policy would have generated net benefits for specific regions of Georgia, but distributional conflicts, coupled with high transaction costs, made a vo…
Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South
After the American Civil War, agricultural reformers in the South called for an end to unrestricted grazing of livestock on unfenced land. They advocated the stock law, which required livestock owners to fence in their animals, arguing that the existing system (in which farmers built protective fences around crops) was outdated and inhibited economic growth. The reformers steadily won their battles, and by the end of the century the range was on …
Common Sense or Commonwealth? The Fence Law and Institutional Change in the Postbellum South
Shawn Everett Kantor, J. Morgan Kousser, Common Sense or Commonwealth? The Fence Law and Institutional Change in the Postbellum South, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 59, No. 2 (May, 1993), pp. 201-242
Razorbacks, Ticky Cows, and the Closing of the Georgia Open Range: The Dynamics of Institutional Change Uncovered
This article attempts to explain why the adoption of potentially productive institutions is delayed and why inefficient ones persist by exploring the dynamics of institutional change in a particular historical case—the closing of the Georgia open range in the late nineteenth century. A closed range policy would have generated net benefits for specific regions of Georgia, but distributional conflicts, coupled with high transaction costs, made a vo…
Square Deal” or Raw Deal? Market Compensation for Workplace Disamenities, 1884–1903
Early twentieth-century social reformers claimed that public insurance was necessary because employers ignored the financial needs of their unemployed, injured, or ill workers. Reformers dismissed the idea that competition in the labor market would boost the wages of workers who faced greater chances of job-related financial distress. This article reports a test of the compensating-wage-difference hypothesis on wage samples of men, women, and chi…
Property Rights and the Dynamics of Institutional Change: The Closing of the Georgia Open Range, 1870-1900
The traditional agricultural practice in Georgia from colonial times until after the Civil War allowed animals to roam the countryside freely and forced farmers to erect fences around their growing crops. All unfenced land, therefore, was considered common pasture that could be used by anyone. After the Civil War there was a concerted effort to eradicate the open range policy and to force all livestock owners to fence in their animals instead of …
Economic behavior and institutions
Common Sense or Commonwealth? The Fence Law and Institutional Change in the Postbellum South
Shawn Everett Kantor, J. Morgan Kousser, Common Sense or Commonwealth? The Fence Law and Institutional Change in the Postbellum South, The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 59, No. 2 (May, 1993), pp. 201-242
A Rejoinder: Two Visions of History
Supplanting the Roots of Southern Populism: The Contours of Political Protest in the Georgia Hills
Steven Hahn, in his influential book The Roots of Southern Populism , viewed Populism in the Georgia Up-country as the culmination of a long-standing protest against the economic and social effects of commercialization in regions that were relatively isolated prior to the Civil War. In developing his explanation for the rise of Populism, Hahn emphasized the close relationship between voting for Populism in the 1890s and voting to keep the range o…
The Political Economy of Coalition-Formation: The Case of Livestock Enclosure in the Postbellum South
Precautionary Saving, Insurance, and the Origins of Workers' Compensation
In this article, the authors test whether the introduction of social insurance has led to a reduction in private insurance purchases and precautionary saving by examining the introduction of workers' compensation. Their empirical analysis is based on the financial decisions of over 7,000 households surveyed for the 1917-19 Bureau of Labor Statistics cost-of-living study. The authors find that the presence of workers' compensation at least partial…
The Durable Experiment: State Insurance of Workers' Compensation Risk in the Early Twentieth Century
In the early 1910s state governments debated the private versus public underwriting of workers' compensation risk. The choices they made established the existing system today and set the stage for later debates over the government's underwriting of unemployment, health, and disability risks. This article offers both quantitative and case-study analyses of states' original choices between public and private insurance. Monopoly state funds were ado…
The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910–1930
Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South
After the American Civil War, agricultural reformers in the South called for an end to unrestricted grazing of livestock on unfenced land. They advocated the stock law, which required livestock owners to fence in their animals, arguing that the existing system (in which farmers built protective fences around crops) was outdated and inhibited economic growth. The reformers steadily won their battles, and by the end of the century the range was on …
Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South
Journal Article Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South. By Shawn Everett Kantor. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. x, 187 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-226-42375-1. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 0-226-42377-8.) Get access Jonathan M. Bryant Jonathan M. Bryant Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American Histor…
A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origin of Workers' Compensation
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