Enterprise and American law, 1836-1937 / Herbert Hovenkamp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hovenkamp, Herbert, 1948-

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Corporation law--United States--History.

Corporation law.

Trade regulation--United States--History.

Trade regulation.

Antitrust law--United States--History.

Antitrust law.

Industrial policy--United States--History.

Industrial policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 443 p. )

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991.

Contents:

Introduction

I: The Classical Corporation And State Policy

1: Classical Political Economy and the Business Corporation

2: Vested Corporate Rights

3: Politics and Public Goods

4: The Coporate Personality

5: Limited Liability

6: Coporate Power and Its Abuse

II: The Economic Constitution

7: A Moral Theory of Political Economy

8: The Classical Theory of Federalism

9: An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution

III: The Rise of Regulated Industry

10: Market Failure and Constitutional Classicism: The Slaughter-House Cases

11: Regulation and Incorporation

12: The Railroads and the Development of Regulatory Policy

13: Federalism an dRate Discrimination

IV: The Political Economy of Substantive Due Process

14: Historical Explanation and Substantive Due Process

15: The American School of Political Economy

16: The Wages Fund

17: Market Failure and the Constitution

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-436) and index.

ISBN:

9780674257481

0674257480

Publisher Number:

2027/heb00477 hdl