Brian Phillips Murphy, Building the Empire State: Political Economy in the Early Republic (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) 304 pages. $49.95, ISBN: 9780812247169. Brian Phillips Murphy’s impressive and richly documented account about the state and the marketplace in early republican New York will be of great interest to legal historians. Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, he argues, New York politicians used regulatory power to create institutions that channeled commerce and development to the northeast and west. Murphy’s sophisticated method, which is reminiscent of J. Willard Hurst’s approach to legal and policy history, is perhaps the most noteworthy of his contributions. From the start, Murphy promises to show how “formal rules of the game” and “informal norms of behavior” shaped law and policy in the early republic. (6) In each of the vivid case studies that constitute the chapters of this book, Murphy delivers on … rhoyos{at}swlaw.edu

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布赖恩菲利普斯墨菲，建立帝国国家：早期共和国的政治经济学

布赖恩·菲利普斯·墨菲 (Brian Phillips Murphy)，《建立帝国：共和国早期的政治经济学》（费城：宾夕法尼亚大学出版社，2015 年）304 页。49.95 美元，ISBN：9780812247169。布赖恩·菲利普斯·墨菲 (Brian Phillips Murphy) 对早期共和党纽约州和市场的令人印象深刻且记录丰富的描述将引起法律历史学家的极大兴趣。他认为，在美国独立战争和内战之间，纽约政客利用监管权力建立了将商业和发展引向东北和西部的机构。墨菲的复杂方法让人想起 J. Willard Hurst 对法律和政策史的研究方法，也许是他的贡献中最值得注意的。从头开始，墨菲承诺展示“正式的游戏规则”和“非正式的行为规范”如何影响早期共和国的法律和政策。(6) 在构成本书各章的每个生动案例研究中，墨菲都提供了……rhoyos{at}swlaw.edu