Eric Alston

Lone Mountain Fellow

Eric Alston is a Scholar in Residence and Faculty Director of the Hernando De Soto Capital Markets Program at Colorado University, Boulder, and a Research Associate with the Comparative Institutions Project. He was a 2017 PERC Lone Mountain Fellow.

Articles by Eric Alston

Development Derailed: Railroad Land Grants and Irrigation in the Western United States

Eric Alston

An analysis of how uncertain property rights – exogenously generated by railroad land grants – stymied irrigation investment and economic development on the Western frontier.

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