Background
Fried, Barbara H. was born in 1951.
( Law and economics is the leading intellectual movement...)
Law and economics is the leading intellectual movement in law today. This book examines the first great law and economics movement in the early part of the twentieth century through the work of one of its most original thinkers, Robert Hale. Beginning in the 1890s and continuing through the 1930s, progressive academics in law and economics mounted parallel assaults on free-market economic principles. They showed first that "private," unregulated economic relations were in fact determined by a state-imposed regime of property and contract rights. Second, they showed that the particular regime of rights that existed at that time was hard to square with any common-sense notions of social justice. Today, Hale is best known among contemporary legal academics and philosophers for his groundbreaking writings on coercion and consent in market relations. The bulk of his writing, however, consisted of a critique of natural property rights. Taken together, these writings on coercion and property rights offer one of the most profound and elaborated critiques of libertarianism, far outshining the better-known efforts of Richard Ely and John R. Commons. In his writings on public utility regulation, Hale also made important contributions to a theory of just, market-based distribution. This first, full-length study of Hale's work should be of interest to legal, economic, and intellectual historians.
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Fried, Barbara H. was born in 1951.
Bachelor in English & American Literature, magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1977. Master of Arts in English & American Literature, Harvard University, 1980. Juris Doctor cum laude, Harvard University, 1983.
Law clerk to Honorary J. Edward Lumbard United States Court Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1983—1984. Associate tax department Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, New York City, 1984—1987. Assistant professor Stanford Law School, 1987—1991, associate professor, 1991—1993, professor law, since 1993, Deanne Johnson faculty scholar, 1993—2003, William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders professor law, since 2003.
Visiting professor New York University Law School, 1998—1999, 2000.
( Law and economics is the leading intellectual movement...)