Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain

We thank Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Claudia Goldin, Gary Libecap, Lee Alston, Stergios Skaperdas, Linda Cohen, John Wallis, Tim Leunig, Richard Sylla, Mauricio Drelichman, and Joel Mokyr for helpful comments on earlier drafts. We also thank seminar participants at the University of British Columbia, New York University, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, and Washington Area Economic History Seminar and conference participants at meetings of the Economic History Society, the All-UC Group in Economic History, World Congress of Economic History, the International Economic History Association, and DAE Spring Institute at the NBER. We thank Francesca Labordo and Patricia Suzuki for research assistance. We thank the Parliamentary Archives for assistance and advice. We thank the University of California for financial support. This paper is a revised version of an earlier NBER working paper entitled "Institutional Adaptability and Economic Development: The Property Rights Revolution in Britain, 1700 to 1830." The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.