PUBLIC CHOICE:
Sam Peltzman, 1976, “Toward a More General Theory of Regulation,” Journal of Law and
Economics 19 (2): 211-40, especially pp. 211-22.
Gary Becker, 1983, “A Theory of Competition among Pressure Groups for Political
Influence,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 98 (3): 371-400, especially pp. 371-88.
Ronald N. Johnson and Gary D. Libecap, 2001, “Information Distortion and Competitive
Remedies in Government Transfer Programs,” Economics of Governance 2: 101-34,
especially pp. 101-12.
BROAD BACKGROUND ON THE AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE INTERWAR
PERIOD:
Jeremy Atack and Peter Passell, A New Economic View of American History from Colonial
Times to 1940, second edition: Chapter 20 “American Comes of Age: 1914-29;” Chapter 21,
“The Great Depression: Explaining the Contraction;” Chapter 22, “The Great Depression,
1933-39: The Recovery?;”Chapter 23, “The Extension of Government: From the Price of
Bread to the Price of Wheat.”
Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White, eds, The Defining Moment: The
Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century, 1998, University of
Chicago Press, Chapter 4, Hugh Rockoff, “By Way of Analogy: The Expansion of the
Federal Government in the 1930s,”pp. 128-154; Chapter 5, John Joseph Wallis and Wallace
E. Oates, “The Impact of the New Deal on American Federalism,” pp, 155-80.
AGRICULTURAL REGULATION INTERVENTION IN THE 1920s
Elizabeth Hoffman and Gary D. Libecap, 1991, “Institutional Choice and the Development of
U.S. Agricultural Policies in the 1920s.” Journal of Economic History 51 (2): 397-411.
NEW DEAL AGRICULTURAL REGULATION
Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White, eds, The Defining Moment: The
Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century, 1998, University of
Chicago Press, Chapter 6, Gary D. Libecap, “The Great Depression and the Regulating State;
Federal Government Regulation of Agriculture, 1884-1970,” pp. 181-224.
Claudia Goldin and Gary D. Libecap, The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to
Political Economy, 1994, University of Chicago Press, Chapter 6, Elizabeth Hoffman and
Gary D. Libecap, “Political Bargaining and Cartelization in the New Deal: Orange Marketing
Orders” pp. 189-221.
Barbara Alexander and Gary D. Libecap, 2000, “The Effect of Cost Heterogeneity in the
Success and Failure of the New Deal’s Agricultural and Industrial Programs,” Explorations in
Economic History 37: 370-400.