The Role of Pollution Regulation and Litigation in the Development of the U.S. Meatpacking Industry, 1865–1880
本文挑战传统观点，认为19世纪下半叶美国大型肉类加工企业的兴起，不仅源于追求利润的技术创新和规模经济，还受到社会通过政府监管和私人诉讼迫使行业减少环境污染的推动。
Business historians have treated the emergence of large, modern, vertically integrated meatpacking firms in the second half of the nineteenth century as the economically rational and inevitable product of the industry's search for ways to maximize profits through technological innovation, vertical integration, and the achievement of economies of scale and scope. This is only part of the story, however. Society's efforts to force the industry to abate its environmental pollution through government regulation and private lawsuits also stimulated and shaped these processes of modernization.