Law and Markets in United States History

Originally [Madison]: The University of Wisconsin Press, [1982]. vii, 207 pp. The eminent legal scholar James Willard Hurst’s sociological analysis of the relation between law and private business in relation to society at large Hurst argues that law and business support the same goals of efficiency and humanity, and examines their interrelationship toward that end in terms of ethical issues related to public policy, money supply, the impact of incremental change, inflation and deflation, monopoly and competition, and other economic factors. Based on Hurst’s lectures at The University of Wisconsin in April, 1981. CONTENTS The Market, the Law, and Challenges of Scarcity Chapter 1 Law and the Constitution of the Market Chapter 2 The Market in Social Context Chapter 3 Bargaining through Law and through Markets Notes Sources Cited Index