The Progressive Assault On Laissez Faire

Author : Barbara H. Fried
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674037304

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The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire by Barbara H. Fried Pdf

Law 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. Today, Hale is best known among contemporary legal academics and philosophers for his groundbreaking writings on coercion and consent in market relations. The bulk of his writing, however, consisted of a critique of natural property rights. Taken together, these writings on coercion and property rights offer one of the most profound and elaborated critiques of libertarianism, far outshining the better-known efforts of Richard Ely and John R. Commons. In his writings on public utility regulation, Hale also made important contributions to a theory of just, market-based distribution. This first, full-length study of Hale's work should be of interest to legal, economic, and intellectual historians.

Author : H.G. Franklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Free enterprise
ISBN : OCLC:785072948

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The Economics of Laissez Faire by H.G. Franklin Pdf

Author : David Kennedy,William W. Fisher III
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 925 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780691186429

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The Canon of American Legal Thought by David Kennedy,William W. Fisher III Pdf

This anthology presents, for the first time, full texts of the twenty most important works of American legal thought since 1890. Drawing on a course the editors teach at Harvard Law School, the book traces the rise and evolution of a distinctly American form of legal reasoning. These are the articles that have made these authors--from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., to Ronald Coase, from Ronald Dworkin to Catherine MacKinnon--among the most recognized names in American legal history. These authors proposed answers to the classic question: "What does it mean to think like a lawyer--an American lawyer?" Their answers differed, but taken together they form a powerful brief for the existence of a distinct and powerful style of reasoning--and of rulership. The legal mind is as often critical as constructive, however, and these texts form a canon of critical thinking, a toolbox for resisting and unravelling the arguments of the best legal minds. Each article is preceded by a short introduction highlighting the article's main ideas and situating it in the context of its author's broader intellectual projects, the scholarly debates of his or her time, and the reception the article received. Law students and their teachers will benefit from seeing these classic writings, in full, in the context of their original development. For lawyers, the collection will take them back to their best days in law school. All readers will be struck by the richness, the subtlety, and the sophistication with which so many of what have become the clichés of everyday legal argument were originally formulated.

Author : Michael Les Benedict
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442259935

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The Blessings of Liberty by Michael Les Benedict Pdf

This concise, accessible text provides students with a history of American constitutional development in the context of political, economic, and social change. Constitutional historian Michael Benedict stresses the role that the American people have played over time in defining the powers of government and the rights of individuals and minorities. He covers important trends and events in U.S. constitutional history, encompassing key Supreme Court and lower-court cases. The volume begins by discussing the English and colonial origins of American constitutionalism. Following an analysis of the American Revolution's meaning to constitutional history, the text traces the Constitution's evolution from the Early Republic to the present day. This third edition is updated to include the election of 2000, the Tea Party and the rise of popular constitutionalism, and the rise of judicial supremacy as seen in cases such as Citizens United, the Affordable Care Act, and gay marriage.

Author : Andrew S. Gold,John C.P. Goldberg,Daniel B. Kelly,Emily Sherwin,Henry E. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190919689

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The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law by Andrew S. Gold,John C.P. Goldberg,Daniel B. Kelly,Emily Sherwin,Henry E. Smith Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law reflects exciting developments in scholarship dedicated to reinvigorating the study of the broad field of private law. This field embraces the traditional common law subjects (property, contracts, and torts), as well as adjacent, more statutory areas, such as intellectual property and commercial law. It also includes important areas that have been neglected in the United States but are beginning to make a comeback. These include unjust enrichment, restitution, equity, and remedies more generally. "Private law" can also mean private law as a whole, which invites consideration of issues such as the public-private distinction, the similarities and differences between the various areas of private law, and the institutional framework supporting private law - including courts, arbitrators, and even custom. The New Private Law is an approach to these subjects that aims to bring a new outlook to the study of private law by moving beyond reductively instrumentalist policy evaluation and narrow, rule-by-rule, doctrine-by-doctrine analysis, so as to consider and capture how private law's various features fit and work together, as well as the normative underpinnings of these larger structures. This movement has begun resuscitating the notion of private law itself in the United States and has brought an interdisciplinary perspective to the more traditional, doctrinal approach prevalent in Commonwealth countries. The Handbook embraces a broad range of perspectives to private law - including philosophical, economic, historical, and psychological, to name a few - yet it offers a unifying theme of seriousness about the structure and content of private law. It will be an essential resource for legal scholars interested in the future of this important field.

Author : Harris Gilbert Franklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Economics
ISBN : PRNC:32101047838618

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The Economics of Laissez Faire by Harris Gilbert Franklin Pdf

Author : Jack Beatty
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400032426

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Age of Betrayal by Jack Beatty Pdf

Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American political culture that, in the words of Rutherford B. Hayes, transformed “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people” into “a government by the corporations, of the corporations, and for the corporations.” A passionate, gripping, scandalous and sorrowing history of the triumph of wealth over commonwealth.

Author : Fleur Johns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107014015

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Non-Legality in International Law by Fleur Johns Pdf

Shows how international lawyers make non-law (extra-legal, illegal and other non-legal phenomena) and why this matters in global politics today.

Author : John M. Dobson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781851095582

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Bulls, Bears, Boom, and Bust by John M. Dobson Pdf

An intriguing collection of insider information on little known aspects of commonly used business techniques, instruments, policies, and personalities that influenced the rise of the world's most successful business system. Bulls, Bears, Boom, and Bust: A Historical Encyclopedia of American Business Concepts translates the language of business in an engaging, compelling way. From mercantilism to microchips, indentured servants to venture capitalists, William Penn to Bill Gates, this one-of-a-kind lexicon provides general readers with an accessible introduction to the vernacular of the American business community, while providing business professionals with a handy resource for quick authoritative answers. Divided into five chronological sections, Bulls, Bears, Boom, and Bust ranges from colonial times to the present, charting the dramatic history of business innovations and institutions in the United States. It contains over 200 topical entries that define business-related terms and explain their relevance to American business and economic history. In addition, each section provides information about the people behind the signature developments in American business (innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs, namesakes of familiar companies, key political figures).

Author : Michael Willrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 052179403X

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City of Courts by Michael Willrich Pdf

This 2003 book looks at contesting concepts of crime, and social justice in nineteenth-century industrial America.

Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674256521

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The Last Utopia by Samuel Moyn Pdf

Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.

Author : Rachael Scarborough King,Seth Rudy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350242302

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The Ends of Knowledge by Rachael Scarborough King,Seth Rudy Pdf

Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of the Enlightenment: what is “the last or furthest end of knowledge”? It is a book about why we do what we do, and how we might know when we are done. In the reorganization of knowledge that characterized the Enlightenment, disciplines were conceived as having particular “ends,” both in terms of purposes and end-points. As we experience an ongoing shift to the knowledge economy of the Information Age, this collection asks whether we still conceptualize knowledge in this way. Does an individual discipline have both an inherent purpose and a natural endpoint? What do an experiment on a fruit fly, a reading of a poem, and the writing of a line of code have in common? Focusing on areas as diverse as AI; biology; Black studies; literary studies; physics; political activism; and the concept of disciplinarity itself, contributors uncover a life after disciplinarity for subjects that face immediate threats to the structure if not the substance of their contributions. These essays – whether reflective, historical, eulogistic, or polemical – chart a vital and necessary course towards the reorganization of knowledge production as a whole.

Author : Jedediah Purdy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400095841

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A Tolerable Anarchy by Jedediah Purdy Pdf

In A Tolerable Anarchy, Jedediah Purdy traces the history of the American understanding of freedom, an ideal that has inspired the country’s best—and worst—moments, from independence and emancipation to war and economic uncertainty. Working from portraits of famous American lives, like Frederick Douglas and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Purdy asks crucial questions about our relationship to liberty: Does capitalism perfect or destroy freedom? Does freedom mean following tradition, God’s word, or one’s own heart? Can a nation of individuals also be a community of citizens? This is history that speaks plainly to our lives today, urging readers to explore our understanding of our country and ourselves, and a provocative look at one of America’s cherished principles.

Author : Åsbjørn Melkevik
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030379087

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If You’re a Classical Liberal, How Come You’re Also an Egalitarian? by Åsbjørn Melkevik Pdf

Classical liberalism has wrongly been regarded as an ideology that rejects the welfare state. In this book, Åsbjørn Melkevik corrects this common reading of the classical liberal tradition by introducing a theory of “rule egalitarianism”. Not only is classical liberalism compatible with social justice, but it can also help us understand why some egalitarian endeavours are an essential feature of a market society. If a necessary link exists between the classical liberal tradition and the moral and institutional dimensions of the rule of law, then this tradition is bound to uphold a substantial form of social justice. Coherence requires that classical liberals like Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman adopt an authentic egalitarian program. They should ameliorate poverty and limit inequality not merely out of prudence or collective self-interest, but for the natural justice of ongoing social cooperation as well as for the impartiality of market institutions.

Author : Christopher M. Nichols,Nancy C. Unger
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118913970

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A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era by Christopher M. Nichols,Nancy C. Unger Pdf

A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era presents a collection of new historiographic essays covering the years between 1877 and 1920, a period which saw the U.S. emerge from the ashes of Reconstruction to become a world power. The single, definitive resource for the latest state of knowledge relating to the history and historiography of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Features contributions by leading scholars in a wide range of relevant specialties Coverage of the period includes geographic, social, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, ethnic, racial, gendered, religious, global, and ecological themes and approaches In today’s era, often referred to as a “second Gilded Age,” this book offers relevant historical analysis of the factors that helped create contemporary society Fills an important chronological gap in period-based American history collections