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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)

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Author Biography: Richard A. Epstein

Book Synopsis

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

Table of Contents

Preface : why we must reopen closed debates
1Introduction1
2The classical liberal synthesis14
AFirst principles14
BThe old court federalism19
CEconomic liberties and property rights35
3The progressive era52
AFederalism revisited53
BIndividual rights77
4The post-progressive period111
5Progressivism today117

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