Rates of Return for Land-Grant Railroads
The Central Pacific System
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10104409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lloyd J Mercer (University of California, Santa Barbara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 602-626 |
| Publication date | 1970-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050700086241 |
| OpenAlex | W2118619984 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 7 |
Land was the resource that nineteenth-century America possessed in greatest abundance. A large part of the land was initially in the public domain and was transferred to private ownership in the course of the century. Land policy, therefore, had the potential for creating significant and long lasting effects on the American economy—on the rate of settlement of the West, the distribution of income, the rate of economic growth. A substantial body of literature, much of it severely critical, has developed concerning the economic effects of nineteenth-century American land policy. Unfortunately, the criticisms often rest primarily on tales of corruption and thievery, rather than on economic analysis. Certainly many of the stories are true, but they represent an insufficient basis for evaluating the economic effects of land policy. A detailed economic analysis of individual policies is required
Distribution (mathematics · Economics · Economy · Geography · Land grant · Language change · Natural resource economics · Political science · Public land · Rate of return · Resource (disambiguation · Rest (music · Settlement (finance · American Environmental and Regional History · Finance · Public Administration
Railroads and American economic growth
American Railroads and the Transformation of the Ante-Bellum Economy
The Growth of the American Republic
The Growth of the American Republic 1000 to 1942
The Story of the Western Railroads
Railroads, American Growth, and the New Economic History
Railroads and American Economic Growth
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1972 - 2013 (42) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |