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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.3 | The History Cooperative

The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire: Robert Hale and the First Law and Economics Movement. By Barbara H. Fried. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998. xii, 338 pp. $55.00, isbn 0-674-77527-9.)

Robert Lee Hale (1884-1969) was an institutionalist in economics and a legal realist in law. His positive agenda was to identify the ways in which government and law structured the economic system. His normative agenda was to promote a wider range of interests that the government could support. . . .

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