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

by Barbara H. Fried

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674006984
• ISBN13: 9780674006980
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"