The Political Economy of Segregation: The Case of Segregated Streetcars
研究了美国南方城市有轨电车隔离法的引入，分析私人与公共隔离的经济学，发现隔离法具有约束力且电车公司并非隔离的发起者，有时甚至主动抵制。
The introduction of segregation laws for municipal streetcars is examined. The economics of private and public segregation is analyzed first, taking note of the particular features of the streetcar industry, followed by a discussion of the contemporary debates on streetcar segregation laws in a number of southern cities. The evidence presented suggests that segregation laws were binding constraints and not simply the codification of customary practice. Furthermore, the streetcar companies were not the initiators of segregation and sometimes actively resisted it. These findings are related to several major interpretations of the origins of segregation.