Freedom Through Law : : Public Control of Private Governing Power / / Robert L. Hale.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Hale, Robert L.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1952]; ©1952
• Year of Publication: 1952
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (592 p.)

Looks at the question of the distribution of economic liberty in the broad sense of freedom from restrictions on economic activities as consumers or producers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Part One. Introduction -- I. Economic Liberty and the State -- II. The Legal Bases of Economic Inequality -- Part Two. Common-Law Adjustments of Conflicting Economic Liberties -- III. State and Federal Courts as Sources of Common Law -- IV. Courts as Policy-Makers in the Defining of Rights and Duties -- V. Malicious Wrongs, Prima Facie Torts, and Conspiracies -- VI. Judicial Modification of Legal Duties -- VII. Extortion and Duress -- Part Three. The Protection which the Constitution Affords to Economic Liberty and Equality -- VIII. The Process of Expounding and Enforcing the Constitution -- IX. Constitutional Provisions for the Protection of Individual Economic Interests -- X. Constitutional and Unconstitutional Methods of Depriving Persons of Liberty or Property -- XI. Constitutional Safeguards Against Private Coercive Power -- Part Four. Political Processes for Adjusting Conflicting Liberties -- XII. The Power to Restrict One Liberty in Order to Expand Another -- XIII. The Prices Which a State May Control -- XIV. The Constitutionality of Wage Regulation -- XV. The “Fair Value” Fallacy in Rate-Making -- XVI. Utility Regulation and Taxation as Correctives of Economic Maladjustments -- Part Five. Conclusion -- XVII. Economic Liberty in a Democracy -- Table of Cases -- Index