作者：Hetherington, Bruce W.; Kower, Peter J.
摘要：In his seminal study on the economics of blockade running during the Civil War, Stanley Lebergott raised the paradoxical question, If smuggling yielded spectacular profit rates, why did so few successful investors try a second time?(1) Using Marcus Price's data on thousands of shipping runs, Lebergott estimated that fewer than(2) ten percent of the runners made more than a single trip through the blockade. Employing the same data used by Lebergott, we find startlingly different results.(3)
作者：University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Control of livestock disease had large spillover effects on human health. By 1900 the United States was a leader in livestock disease control, thanks to the efforts of the Bureau of Animal Industry. Its first chief, Daniel Salmon, established a model that would be copied around the world in campaigns against human and animal diseases. For the most part, the Progressive Era regulations to advance livestock health and food safety were spectacular successes. The bureau's main blunder was its fail...
作者：University of California System; University of California Riverside
作者：University of California System; University of California Davis
作者：University of California System; University of California Davis; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
作者：Loyola University Chicago; Northwestern University
作者：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
