Enterprise and American Law, 1836–1937 /

Enterprise and American Law, 1836–1937 / / 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...

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Hovenkamp, Herbert,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1991
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (443 p.) :; 1 map
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Classicism, Democracy, and the Rule of Law
  • PART I. THE CLASSICAL CORPORATION AND STATE POLICY
  • CHAPTER 1. Classical Political Economy and the Business Corporation
  • CHAPTER 2. Vested Corporate Rights
  • CHAPTER 3. Politics and Public Goods
  • CHAPTER 4. The Corporate Personality
  • CHAPTER 5. Limited Liability
  • CHAPTER 6. Corporate Power and Its Abuse
  • PART II. THE ECONOMIC CONSTITUTION
  • CHAPTER 7. A Moral Theory of Political Economy
  • CHAPTER 8. The Classical Theory of Federalism
  • CHAPTER 9. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution
  • PART III. THE RISE OF REGULATED INDUSTRY
  • CHAPTER 10. Market Failure and Constitutional Classicism: The Slaughter-House Cases
  • CHAPTER 11. Regulation and Incorporation
  • CHAPTER 12. The Railroads and the Development of Regulatory Policy
  • CHAPTER 13. Federalism and Rate Discrimination
  • PART IV. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF SUBSTANTIVE DUE PROCESS
  • CHAPTER 14. Historical Explanation and Substantive Due Process
  • CHAPTER 15. The American School of Political Economy
  • CHAPTER 16. The Wages Fund
  • CHAPTER 17. Market Failure and the Constitution
  • PART V. THE LABOR COMBINATION IN AMERICAN LAW
  • CHAPTER 18. Classical Theory and the Labor Cartel
  • CHAPTER 19. Coercion and Its Meaning: Antitrust and the Labor Injunction
  • PART VI. THE ANTITRUST MOVEMENT AND THE THEORY OF THE FIRM
  • CHAPTER 20. American Merger Policy and the Failure of Corporate Law
  • CHAPTER 21. The Classical Theory of Competition
  • CHAPTER 22. The Rise of Industrial Organization
  • CHAPTER 23. The Fixed-Cost Controversy
  • CHAPTER 24. Potential Competition
  • CHAPTER 25. Vertical Integration and Resale Price Maintenance
  • Epilogue: Classical Enterprise in Decline
  • Notes
  • Index

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