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Title

The state and freedom of contract / edited by Harry N. Scheiber.

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors

Scheiber, Harry N.

Description

vi, 378 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The relationship of law to economic freedom has been a vital element in the history of all modern democratic societies. "Freedom of contract" is both a technical term in law, referring to private agreements and promises, and a metaphor often deployed to describe economic liberty. This volume of new essays by eminent legal historians offers fresh perspectives on freedom of contract in both senses of the term, and considers how economic freedom relates to such classic political freedoms as free speech and other Anglo-American constitutional norms. The principal focus of the essays is on broad issues of policy and law, rather than on narrow considerations of legal doctrine."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

The making of modern freedom

Uniform Title

The making of modern freedom.

Subject

• Contracts > United States
• Liberty of contract > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-363) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Harry N. Scheiber -- Land ownership and economic freedom / A. W. B. Simpson -- Contract and the common law / John V. Orth -- Contract, property, and the will - the civil law and common law tradition / James Gordley -- Contract before "Freedom of Contract" / David Lieberman -- Economic liberty and the modern state / Harry N. Scheiber -- The "Liberty of Contract" regime in American law / Charles W. McCurdy -- Freedom of contract, labor, and the administrative state / Arthur F. McEvoy -- Natural resources and economic liberty in American history / Donald J. Pisani -- Globalization of freedom of contract / Martin Shapiro.

ISBN

0804733708 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98024281^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library