Why the Rush? : An Institutional Economic Analysis of Homesteading and the Settlement of the West
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1009684531
ISBN-13
9781009684538
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 19th, 2026
Print length
376 Pages
Weight
546 grams
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15.10 x 22.90 x 2.40 cms
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Homesteading was an almost existential policy that is mostly misunderstood. When seen as a means of transferring title, it is clearly inferior to land sales. However, it allowed both American and Canadian governments to establish sovereign control without the use of massive military efforts.
Establishing economic property rights is a ubiquitous human activity that is key to the creation of wealth. Why the Rush? combines economic and historical analysis to argue that the institution of homesteading, as established in the US through the Homestead Act of 1862, was a method to establish meaningful, economic property rights on the American frontier. It explains how homesteading rushed millions of people into specific areas, established a meaningful sovereignty without the use of military force and became the means by which the US Thwarted military and legal challenges. Using fine-grained data, along with a detailed theoretical analysis and exhaustive institutional content, this book makes a serious contribution to the study of economic property rights and institutions providing the definitive analysis of the economics of homesteading and its role in American economic history.
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