Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal, “Patent Alchemy: The Market for Technology in U.S. History,” Business History Review 87 (Spring 2013): 3-38. Awarded the Henrietta Larson Prize for the best article in that journal in 2013.
The Mystery of Property Rights
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, “The Mystery of Property Rights: A U.S. Perspective,” Journal of Economic History 71 (June 2011), 275-306. Presidential address to the Economic History Association.
Scylla or Charybdis?
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, “Scylla or Charybdis? Some Historical Reflections on the Two Basic Problems of Corporate Governance,” Business History Review 83 (Spring 2009): 9-34.
Pouvoir et propriété dans l’entreprise
Timothy W. Guinnane, Ron Harris, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, “Pouvoir et propriété dans l’entreprise: pour une histoire internationale des sociétiés á responsabilité limitée,” Annales: Histoires, Sciences Sociales 63 (janvier-février 2008): 73-110. (An English version available as “Ownership and Control in the Entrepreneurial Firm: An International History of Private Limited Companies,” Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper #959 [December 2007], http://www.econ.yale.edu/growth_pdf/cdp959.pdf.)
Mobilizing Venture Capital During the Second Industrial Revolution
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Margaret Levenstein, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “Mobilizing Venture Capital During the Second Industrial Revolution: Cleveland, Ohio, 1870- 1920,” Capitalism and Society 1 (2006), issue 3, article 5, http://www.bepress.com/cas/vol1/iss3/art5/. (This article is a revised and expanded version of “Financing Invention during the Second Industrial Revolution: Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920,” in Financing Innovation in the United States, ed. Lamoreaux and Sokoloff.)
Did Insecure Property Rights Slow Economic Development?
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, “Did Insecure Property Rights Slow Economic Development? Some Lessons from U.S. History,” Journal of Policy History 18:1 (2006): 146-64 (special issue of the journal, also published as Ruling Passions: Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century America, ed. Richard R. John [University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006]).
Legal Regime and Contractual Flexibility
Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, “Legal Regime and Contractual Flexibility: A Comparison of Business’s Organizational Choices in France and the United States during the Era of Industrialization,” American Law and Economics Review 7 (Spring 2005): 28-61.
Insider Lending
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994). Reissued in paperback, 1996. Awarded the Alice Hanson Jones Prize by the Economic History Association for the best book on North American Economic History published in 1993-95.
The Great Merger Movement
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985). Reissued in paperback, 1988.