Freedom to Harm: The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival - Hardcover

McGarity, Thomas O.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300141246 ISBN 13: 9780300141245

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2013

Synopsis

How much economic freedom is a good thing?
 
This book tells the story of how the business community, and the trade associations and think tanks that it created, launched three powerful assaults during the last quarter of the twentieth century on the federal regulatory system and the state civil justice system to accomplish a revival of the laissez faire political economy that dominated Gilded Age America.  Although the consequences of these assaults became painfully apparent in a confluence of crises during the early twenty-first century, the patch-and-repair fixes that Congress and the Obama administration put into place did little to change the underlying laissez faire ideology and practice that continues to dominate the American political economy.  In anticipation of the next confluence of crises, Thomas McGarity offers suggestions for more comprehensive governmental protections for consumers, workers, and the environment.

About this title

Book Description:

How much economic freedom is a good thing? This comprehensive look at America’s succession of “laissez faire revivals” shows how anti-regulatory business crusades harm public safety and economic performance.

About the Author:

Thomas O. McGarity holds the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long Endowed Chair in Administrative Law at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. He is the author of The Preemption War: When Federal Bureaucracies Trump Local Juries and Reinventing Rationality: The Role of Regulatory Analysis in the Federal Bureaucracy. He lives in Austin, TX.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0300141246
• ISBN 13: 9780300141245
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 408