Enterprise and American Law, 1836-1937

by Herbert Hovenkamp

In this integration of law and economic ideas, Herbert Hovenkamp charts the evolution of the legal framework that regulated American business enterprise from the time of Andrew Jackson through the first New Deal. He reveals the interdependent relationship between economic theory and law that existed in these decades of headlong growth and examines how this relationship shaped both the modern business corporation and substantive due process. Classical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674335562
• ISBN13: 9780674335561
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 453 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"