Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement

Law and economics is the leading intellectual movement in law today. This book examines the first great...
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Author: Barbara Fried
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Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement by Fried, Barbara

Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement

$141.67

Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement

$141.67
Author: Barbara Fried
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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: Barbara Fried
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 12/21/2001
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.42w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780674006980

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