Law And Markets In United States History

Author : James Willard Hurst
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781584771364

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Law and Markets in United States History by James Willard Hurst Pdf

The eminent legal scholar James Willard Hurst's sociological analysis of the relation between law and private business in relation to society at large Hurst argues that law and business support the same goals of efficiency and humanity, and examines their interrelationship toward that end in terms of ethical issues related to public policy, money supply, the impact of incremental change, inflation and deflation, monopoly and competition, and other economic factors. Based on Hurst's lectures at The University of Wisconsin in April, 1981. James Willard Hurst [1910-1997] is widely recognized as the father of modern American legal history. He taught at University of Wisconsin Law School. A prolific scholar and writer, Hurst's major works include The Growth of American Law: The Law Makers (1950), Law and The Conditions of Freedom in The Nineteenth-century United States (1956), Law and Economic Growth: The Legal History of the Wisconsin Lumber Industry 1835-1916 (1964), Law and Social Process in U.S. History (1960) and Law and Social Order in the United States (1977). CONTENTS Introduction: The Market, the Law, and Challenges of Scarcity Chapter 1 Law and the Constitution of the Market Chapter 2 The Market in Social Context Chapter 3 Bargaining through Law and through Markets Notes Sources Cited Index

Author : James W. Hurst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0783737491

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Law and Markets in United States History by James W. Hurst Pdf

Author : James Willard Hurst
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1587980983

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A Legal History of Money in the United States, 1774-1970 by James Willard Hurst Pdf

Fascinating reading for those interested in the cause and effect relations between legal processes and economic processes and those concerned with separation of powers and public administration.

Author : Jerry Markham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317466376

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Law Enforcement and the History of Financial Market Manipulation by Jerry Markham Pdf

First Published in 2014. This book maps the issues and traces the U.S. government's efforts to properly regulate, monitor, and prevent financial speculation and price manipulation in various markets. It begins with the period from the late nineteenth century to the first congressional efforts at regulation in the 1930s and continues on to the present, with a full chapter on the legal and financial aspects of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The book also discusses the difficulty of initiating successful prosecutions of financial fraud and price manipulation and proposes a new approach to preventing manipulative practices.

Author : William J. Novak
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807863657

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The People’s Welfare by William J. Novak Pdf

Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In The People's Welfare, William Novak refutes this vision of a stateless past by documenting America's long history of government regulation in the areas of public safety, political economy, public property, morality, and public health. Challenging the myth of American individualism, Novak recovers a distinctive nineteenth-century commitment to shared obligations and public duties in a well-regulated society. Novak explores the by-laws, ordinances, statutes, and common law restrictions that regulated almost every aspect of America's society and economy, including fire regulations, inspection and licensing rules, fair marketplace laws, the moral policing of prostitution and drunkenness, and health and sanitary codes. Based on a reading of more than one thousand court cases in addition to the leading legal and political texts of the nineteenth century, The People's Welfare demonstrates the deep roots of regulation in America and offers a startling reinterpretation of the history of American governance.

Author : Bernard E. Harcourt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674971325

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The Illusion of Free Markets by Bernard E. Harcourt Pdf

It is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental as faith in the free market is the belief that government has a legitimate and competent role in policing and the punishment arena. This curious incendiary combination of free market efficiency and the Big Brother state has become seemingly obvious, but it hinges on the illusion of a supposedly natural order in the economic realm. The Illusion of Free Markets argues that our faith in “free markets” has severely distorted American politics and punishment practices. Bernard Harcourt traces the birth of the idea of natural order to eighteenth-century economic thought and reveals its gradual evolution through the Chicago School of economics and ultimately into today’s myth of the free market. The modern category of “liberty” emerged in reaction to an earlier, integrated vision of punishment and public economy, known in the eighteenth century as “police.” This development shaped the dominant belief today that competitive markets are inherently efficient and should be sharply demarcated from a government-run penal sphere. This modern vision rests on a simple but devastating illusion. Superimposing the political categories of “freedom” or “discipline” on forms of market organization has the unfortunate effect of obscuring rather than enlightening. It obscures by making both the free market and the prison system seem natural and necessary. In the process, it facilitated the birth of the penitentiary system in the nineteenth century and its ultimate culmination into mass incarceration today.

Author : Mike Konczal
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781620975381

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Freedom From the Market by Mike Konczal Pdf

The progressive economics writer redefines the national conversation about American freedom “Mike Konczal [is] one of our most powerful advocates of financial reform‚ [a] heroic critic of austerity‚ and a huge resource for progressives.”—Paul Krugman Health insurance, student loan debt, retirement security, child care, work-life balance, access to home ownership—these are the issues driving America’s current political debates. And they are all linked, as this brilliant and timely book reveals, by a single question: should we allow the free market to determine our lives? In the tradition of Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine, noted economic commentator Mike Konczal answers this question with a resounding no. Freedom from the Market blends passionate political argument and a bold new take on American history to reveal that, from the earliest days of the republic, Americans have defined freedom as what we keep free from the control of the market. With chapters on the history of the Homestead Act and land ownership, the eight-hour work day and free time, social insurance and Social Security, World War II day cares, Medicare and desegregation, free public colleges, intellectual property, and the public corporation, Konczal shows how citizens have fought to ensure that everyone has access to the conditions that make us free. At a time when millions of Americans—and more and more politicians—are questioning the unregulated free market, Freedom from the Market offers a new narrative, and new intellectual ammunition, for the fight that lies ahead.

Author : Henry N. Butler,Jonathan Klick
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law and economics
ISBN : 1786432986

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History of Law and Economics by Henry N. Butler,Jonathan Klick Pdf

Dedicated to the late Henry G. Manne, this authoritative collection surveys the development of law and economics both as a scholarly field and as an educational program. Starting as a niche area, centered primarily at the University of Chicago, law and economics has grown to be the dominant field in US legal scholarship. The influential articles presented in this volume trace that development from the mid-20th century through to today, focusing on both the personalities who laid the groundwork for the field's success and the intellectual debates that fueled its growth. Together with an original introduction by the editors, this collection is a valuable research tool for academics and students interested in the history of law and economics.

Author : Jerry W. Markham
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780765636768

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Law Enforcement and the History of Financial Market Manipulation by Jerry W. Markham Pdf

This is the first book to examine the failure of the U.S. government to properly regulate, monitor, and prevent financial speculation and manipulation of various markets. While the nineteenth century is surveyed in chapter 1, the book's focus is on the period from the first congressional efforts at regulation in 1936 to the present.

Author : Nicholas Greenwood Onuf,Peter S. Onuf
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813925029

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Nations, Markets, and War by Nicholas Greenwood Onuf,Peter S. Onuf Pdf

The limits of history -- Liberal society -- Civilized nations -- Moral persons -- Nation making -- Adam Smith, moral historian -- National destinies -- War and peace in the New World -- The North and the nation -- The South and the nation.

Author : Richard Rothstein
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781631492860

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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein Pdf

New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice Selection One of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the Year One of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the Year Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction An NPR Best Book of the Year Winner of the Hillman Prize for Nonfiction Gold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction) Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) Finalist • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize This “powerful and disturbing history” exposes how American governments deliberately imposed racial segregation on metropolitan areas nationwide (New York Times Book Review). Widely heralded as a “masterful” (Washington Post) and “essential” (Slate) history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law offers “the most forceful argument ever published on how federal, state, and local governments gave rise to and reinforced neighborhood segregation” (William Julius Wilson). Exploding the myth of de facto segregation arising from private prejudice or the unintended consequences of economic forces, Rothstein describes how the American government systematically imposed residential segregation: with undisguised racial zoning; public housing that purposefully segregated previously mixed communities; subsidies for builders to create whites-only suburbs; tax exemptions for institutions that enforced segregation; and support for violent resistance to African Americans in white neighborhoods. A groundbreaking, “virtually indispensable” study that has already transformed our understanding of twentieth-century urban history (Chicago Daily Observer), The Color of Law forces us to face the obligation to remedy our unconstitutional past.

Author : Panos Koutrakos,Jukka Snell
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781783478101

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Research Handbook on the Law of the EU’s Internal Market by Panos Koutrakos,Jukka Snell Pdf

While the internal market has been at the heart of the European project from the very beginning, it has rarely been the subject of sustained and comprehensive scholarly examination in its entirety. In the face of profound legal, political and policy pressures, this timely Research Handbook reflects on the cutting-edge issues, horizontal themes and the big questions which illuminate the shape of the internal market. It places the law and policy of the internal market within the context of the financial crisis and the existential questions this has raised for future European integration.

Author : Bruce Wyman
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0526045485

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Control of the Market: A Legal Solution of the Trust Problem by Bruce Wyman Pdf

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Author : Shobita Parthasarathy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226437859

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Patent Politics by Shobita Parthasarathy Pdf

Introduction -- Defining the public interest in the US and European patent systems -- Confronting the questions of life-form patentability -- Commodification, animal dignity, and patent-system publics -- Forging new patent politics through the human embryonic stem cell debates -- Human genes, plants, and the distributive implications of patents -- Conclusion

Author : Robert L. Paquette,Lou Ferleger
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0813919525

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Slavery, Secession, and Southern History by Robert L. Paquette,Lou Ferleger Pdf

Heir to changing views of slavery in the US South sparked by Eugene Genovese's Marxist analyses, ten original essays probe philosophical, socioeconomic, and literary issues of slavery. Appends 1990s interviews with Genovese and a list of his principal writings. Pacquette and Ferleger teach history at Hamilton College and Boston U., respectively. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR