Table of Contents

List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company as an Institutional Entrepreneur The First Trust Company Vexatious Law Suits and the Path to Railroad Finance The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company and the Evolution of Corporate Finance Corporate Reorganization Railroad Regulation Taxation Conclusion: Institutions, Entrepreneurs, and American History Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Bradley A. Hansen is Associate Professor intheDepartment of Economics at the University of Mary Washington.