The right to earn a living : economic freedom and the law / Timothy Sandefur.

Author/creator Sandefur, Timothy
Format Book
Publication InfoWashington, D.C. : Cato Institute, ©2010.
Descriptionxvii, 376 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents "The most precious liberty man possesses" -- "Corporations" and "monopolies," part I : 1602-1870 -- "Corporations" and "monopolies," part II : 1870 to the present -- The contracts clause : victim of the living constitution -- The era of substantive due process : Slaughterhouse to Lochner -- The rational basis test -- Protectionism and the law -- The dormant commerce clause -- Commercial speech -- The manipulation of contracts -- The abuse of tort law -- Regulatory takings -- The future of economic liberty.
Abstract Traces the history of the fundamental human right of economic liberty, a right protected by English courts over a century before the United States gained independence but which the author argues has been eroded in the years since the Progressive era, and looks at twenty-first-century controversies over economic freedom.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010005484
ISBN9781935308331 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN1935308335

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