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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... writing in the 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 ...
... writing in the area . Finally , as previously suggested , Hale's work is of enormous importance to contemporary legal scholars writing in what might loosely be termed the critical tradition , most notably the Critical Legal Studies ...
... Writing against the backdrop of increasing social unrest- " Socialism , Com- munism , and Anarchism , " in Tiedeman's unsubtle formulation — he in- tended the treatise to show that the democratic majority's power to interfere in ...
... today for the first area , as a result of three widely cited and formative articles redescribing " free market " exchanges as a network of coercion.15 The bulk of Hale's 4 writing , however , was in the second and INTRODUCTION.
Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement Barbara H. Fried. 4 writing , however , was in the second and third areas — the general theory of property rights , and the theory as applied to the problem of public utility rate ...
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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