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

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.

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1952]
©1952
Year of Publication:1952
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (592 p.)
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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