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Authors: Richard A. Epstein
ISBN-13: 9781930865877, ISBN-10: 1930865872
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cato Institute
Date Published: February 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Richard A. Epstein traces the Old Court's treatment of federalism and economic liberty and shows how early 20th-century progressives prevailed eventually in undermining those principles, supplanting competitive markets with government-created cartels and monopolies
Preface : why we must reopen closed debates | ||
1 | Introduction | 1 |
2 | The classical liberal synthesis | 14 |
A | First principles | 14 |
B | The old court federalism | 19 |
C | Economic liberties and property rights | 35 |
3 | The progressive era | 52 |
A | Federalism revisited | 53 |
B | Individual rights | 77 |
4 | The post-progressive period | 111 |
5 | Progressivism today | 117 |