The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics MovementLaw and economics is the leading intellectual movement in law today. This book examines the first great law and economics movement in the early part of the twentieth century through the work of one of its most original thinkers, Robert Hale. Beginning in the 1890s and continuing through the 1930s, progressive academics in law and economics mounted parallel assaults on free-market economic principles. They showed first that "private," unregulated economic relations were in fact determined by a state-imposed regime of property and contract rights. Second, they showed that the particular regime of rights that existed at that time was hard to square with any common-sense notions of social justice. |
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Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement Barbara H. Fried. The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire ROBERT HALE AND THE FIRST LAW AND ECONOMICS MOVEMENT Barbara H. Fried THE PROGRESSIVE ASSAULT ON LAISSEZ FAIRE Robert Hale ...
Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement Barbara H. Fried. THE PROGRESSIVE ASSAULT ON LAISSEZ FAIRE Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement BARBARA H. FRIED Harvard University Press Cambridge, Massachusetts ...
... First Harvard University Press paperback edition , 2001 Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Fried , Barbara , 1951- The progressive assault on laissez faire : Robert Hale and the first law and economics movement ...
... first part of the twenti- eth century. The book describes and assesses the lasting importance of Hale's contributions to legal theory and the nascent field of law and economics. Using Hale's work as a focal point, it also looks more ...
... first great law and economics movement from the 1880s to the 1930s . Although preoccupied with a somewhat different set of concerns , the institutionalists offered a foundational analysis of the legal underpinnings of economic life that ...
Contents
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2 The Empty Idea of Liberty | 29 |
3 The Empty Idea of Property Rights | 71 |
4 A RentTheory World | 108 |
Rate Regulation of Public Utilities | 160 |
6 Conclusion | 205 |
Notes | 217 |
Index | 333 |
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