Price V. Fishback is the Frank and Clara Kramer Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is the author of Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890 - 1930. Shawn Everett Kantor is professor of economics at the University of California, Merced. He is the author of Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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