The origins of state railroad regulation: the Illinois constitution of 1870 / Mark T. Kanazawa and Roger G. Noll--The institutional antecedents of state utility regulation: the Chicago gas industry, 1860 to 1913 / Werner Troesken--Congress and railroad regulation: 1874 to 1887 / Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal--The interaction of taxation and regulation in nineteenth-century U.S. banking / John Joseph Wallis, Richard E. Sylla, and John B. Legler--The origins of federal deposit insurance / Charles W. Calomiris and Eugene N. White--Political bargaining and cartelization in the New Deal: orange marketing orders / Elizabeth Hoffman and Gary D. Libecap--The political economy of immigration restriction in the United States, 1890 to 1921 / Claudia Goldin--Coalition formation and the adoption of workers' compensation: the case of Missouri, 1911 to 1926 / Shawn Everett Kantor and Price V. Fishback.