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- Preface
- Introduction: Classicism, Democracy, and the Rule of Law
- Part I: The Classical Corporation and State Policy
- 1. Classical Political Economy and the Business Corporation
- 2. Vested Corporate Rights
- 3. Politics and Public Goods
- 4. The Corporate Personality
- 5. Limited Liability
- 6. Corporate Power and Its Abuse
- Part II: The Economic Constitution
- 7. A Moral Theory of Political Economy
- 8. The Classical Theory of Federalism
- 9. An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution
- Part III: The Rise of Regulated Industry
- 10. Market Failure and Constitutional Classicism: The Slaughter-House Cases
- 11. Regulation and Incorporation
- 12. The Railroads and the Development of Regulatory Policy
- 13. Federalism and Rate Discrimination
- Part IV: The Political Economy of Substantive Due Process
- 14. Historical Explanation and Substantive Due Process
- 15. The American School of Political Economy
- 16. The Wages Fund
- 17. Market Failure and the Constitution
- Part V: The Labor Combination In American Law
- 18. Classical Theory and the Labor Cartel
- 19. Coercion and Its Meaning: Antitrust and the Labor Injunction
- Part VI: The Antitrust Movement and the Theory of the Firm
- 20. American Merger Policy and the Failure of Corporate Law
- 21. The Classical Theory of Competition
- 22. The Rise of Industrial Organization
- 23. The Fixed-Cost Controversy
- 24. Potential Competition
- 25. Vertical Integration and Resale Price Maintenance
- Epilogue: Classical Enterprise in Decline
- Notes
- Index