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The Economics of the Coal Company Town: Institutional Relationships, Monopsony, and Distributional Conflicts in American Coal Towns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Lawrence W. Boyd
Lawrence W. Boyd
Affiliation:
West Virginia University
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , June 1994 , pp. 426 - 427
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1994

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References

1 This dissertation was completed in 1993 in the Department of Economics, West Virginia University, under the direction of Donald Adams. Financial support from the Department of Economics and The Institute for Labor Studies, West Virginia University, is gratefully acknowledged.

For an explanation of the role of institutions in the economy see North, Douglass, “Institutions,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 5 (Winter 1991), pp. 97–112CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and North, Douglass, Structure and Change in Economic History (New York, 1981).Google Scholar

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5 West Virginia Department of Mines, Annual Report (Charleston, 1901–1910).Google Scholar