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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... Realist movement and the looser association of institutional and progressive economists writing in the first part of ... Realists and institutional economists, Hale produced over his lifetime a substantial body of work that represents ...
... Realists . Hale's push to expose the legal underpinnings of the market can be seen as part of the larger project of the institutionalists to understand the social institutions that condition economic life . Those who were engaged in ...
... Realists , Hale had an aesthetic abhorrence of the sort of sloppy , tautological thinking that characterized much legal discourse of his period . That abhor- rence probably would have driven him to correction whether or not it served ...
... Realist and Institutionalist As previously suggested , Hale's closest intellectual ties were to the American Legal Realists and the institutional economists.31 Indeed , in many ways Hale's work brought to fruition their shared ...
... Realists and the second generation of institutionalists.44 Beginning with Adams's 1886 The Relation of the State to Industrial Action , a core group of institutionalists including Adams , Patten , Ely , Commons , Hamilton , and J. M. ...
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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