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]).