How do social interactions shape collective action, and how are they mediated by networked information technologies? We answer these questions studying the Temperance Crusade, a wave of anti-liquor ...protest activity spreading across 29 states between 1873 and 1874. Relying on exogenous variation in network links generated by railroad accidents, we provide causal evidence of social interactions driving the diffusion of the movement, mediated by rail and telegraph information about neighboring activity. Local newspaper coverage of the crusade was a key channel mediating these effects. Using an event-study methodology, we find strong complementarities between rail and telegraph networks in driving the movement’s spread. (JEL D83, J16, L92, L96, N31, N41, N71)
En este corto ensayo se trata de estudiar la trayectoria del ideario económico que fue progresivamente adoptado durante las seis décadas que median entre la Primera y la Segunda República. A tal ...efecto, este ensayo se divide en dos partes: en primer lugar se discute el liberalismo de la clase política durante la Restauración, y a continuación se repasan los principales grupos de ideas que condujeron de manera continua hacia el autarquismo organicista de la entreguerra
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