Freedom to Harm by Thomas O Mcgarity

Freedom to Harm by Thomas O Mcgarity

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Zusammenfassung

Looks at America's succession of "laissez-faire revivals" that show how anti-regulatory business crusades harm public safety and economic performance with a look at the Gilded Age, from the late 1800s to the early 1900s; the Laissez-Faire Revival of the mid-1960s to mid-1970s; and the tenure of the George W Bush administration.

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Freedom to Harm by Thomas O Mcgarity

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.
Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2013 in the US. Politics Category. -- Outstanding Academic Title * Choice *
“A well-written, well-reasoned book that should be read by every consumer rights lawyer, as well as people involved in consumer advocacy and public-interest organizations.”—Trial -- Allen P. Wilkinson * Trial *

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.

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ISBN 13 9780300141245
ISBN 10 0300141246
Titel Freedom to Harm
Autor Thomas O Mcgarity
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Verlag Yale University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2013-03-19
Seitenanzahl 408
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