The progressive assault on laissez faire : Robert Hale and the first law and economics movement / Barbara H. Fried.

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, p...

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Main Author: Fried, Barbara, 1951-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Empty Idea of Liberty
  • 3. The Empty Idea of Property Rights
  • 4. A Rent-Theory World
  • 5. Property Theory in Practice: Rate Regulation of Public Utilities
  • 6. Conclusion.