The pox of liberty : how the Constitution left Americans rich, free, and prone to infection /
"Werner Troesken looks at the history of the United States with a focus on three diseases (smallpox, typhoid fever, and yellow fever) to show how constitutional rules and provisions that promoted individual liberty and economic prosperity also influenced, for good and for bad, the country'...
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The University of Chicago Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Markets and governments in economic history
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The pox of liberty : |b how the Constitution left Americans rich, free, and prone to infection / |c Werner Troesken |
| 260 | |a Chicago : |b The University of Chicago Press, |c [2015] | ||
| 300 | |a x, 237 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 490 | 1 | |a Markets and governments in economic history | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-225) and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a An introduction -- From the ideology of the township to the gospel of germs -- The constitutional foundations of health and prosperity -- The pox of liberty -- The palliative effects of property rights -- Empire, federalism, and the surprising fall of yellow fever -- Concluding remarks | |
| 520 | |a "Werner Troesken looks at the history of the United States with a focus on three diseases (smallpox, typhoid fever, and yellow fever) to show how constitutional rules and provisions that promoted individual liberty and economic prosperity also influenced, for good and for bad, the country's ability to eradicate infectious disease. Ranging from federalism under the Commerce Clause to the Contract Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment, Troesken argues persuasively that many institutions intended to promote desirable political or economic outcomes also hindered the provision of public health"--Jacket | ||
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