The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation in the Early Twentieth-Century

政府的增长是最引人注目的，但也是最少的。 在上个世纪美国经济的变化。 虽然大多数研究都集中在联邦的增长， 政府，州政府也迅速扩大，往往 实验了一些项目，这些项目后来被引入了 联邦级别。 这项研究的目的是为了更好地 理解国家在政府发展中的作用， 分析工人补偿的采用，美国第一个 重大社会保险项目。 这项研究将联合收割机与 对采用工人补偿的时机的宏观分析 通过详细和定量的案例研究， 几个重要国家的法律。 工人的劳动力在多大程度上 受益或受损的各种群体的赔偿将是 包括各种技能水平的工人， 工人、不同规模的雇主和不同的事故 经验，保险公司，纳税人和国家官员。 根据这些经验估计，群体和个人 将他们预期的经济回报转化为政治行动 将进行分析。 这项研究很重要，因为它将 更好地理解经济与社会的相互作用， 美国经济发展中的政治制度。

The growth of Government is the most dramatic, yet least understood, change in the American economy in the last century. While most studies have focused on the growth of the federal government, state governments also expanded rapidly and often experimented with programs that were later introduced at the federal level. The purpose of this research is to better understand the role of the states in the growth of government by analyzing the adoption of workers' compensation, America's first major social insurance program. The research will combine both macro analysis of the timing of adoption of workers' compensation with detailed and quantitative case studies of the passage of the laws in several important states. The extent to which workers' compensation benefitted or harmed various groups will be estimated, including workers of various skill levels, unionized workers, employers of different sizes and different accident experience, insurance companies, taxpayers, and state officials. Based on these empirical estimates, how groups and individuals translated their expected economic returns into political action will be analyzed. This research is important because it will provide a better understanding of the interaction of the economic and political systems in the development of the American economy.