Prodigals and projectors: An economic history of usury laws in the United States from colonial times to 1900

Human Capital and Institutions: A Long Run View

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 285-324

  Rockoff, Hugh ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511605390.012     Document Type: Chapter

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