LEADER 03715nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910455065003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-03730-8 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674037304 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805450 035 $a(EBL)3300535 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300535 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300535 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10318532 035 $a(OCoLC)923111519 035 $a(DE-B1597)574409 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674037304 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805450 100 $a19970903e20011998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe progressive assault on laissez faire$b[electronic resource] $eRobert Hale and the first law and economics movement /$fBarbara H. Fried 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2001, c1998 215 $a1 online resource (352 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-77527-9 311 $a0-674-00698-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [217]-332) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPREFACE -- $t1 Introduction -- $t2 The Empty Idea of Liberty -- $t3 The Empty Idea of Property Rights -- $t4 A Rent-Theory World -- $t5 Property Theory in Practice: Rate Regulation of Public Utilities -- $t6 Conclusion -- $tNOTES -- $tINDEX 330 $aLaw 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. 606 $aRight of property$zUnited States 606 $aFree enterprise$zUnited States 606 $aInstitutional economics 606 $aNeoclassical school of economics 606 $aProgressivism (United States politics) 606 $aCritical legal studies$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aRight of property 615 0$aFree enterprise 615 0$aInstitutional economics. 615 0$aNeoclassical school of economics. 615 0$aProgressivism (United States politics) 615 0$aCritical legal studies 676 $a330.122 700 $aFried$b Barbara$f1951-$0858081 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455065003321 996 $aThe progressive assault on laissez faire$91915803 997 $aUNINA