The Right to Earn a Living: Economic Freedom and the Law
Timothy Sandefur
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Description
America's founders thought the right to earn a living was so basic and obvious that it didn't need to be mentioned in the Bill of Rights. Yet today that right is burdened by a wide array of government rules and regulations that play favorites, rewrite contracts, encourage frivolous lawsuits, seize private property, and manipulate economic choices to achieve outcomes that bureaucrats favor. The Right to Earn a Living charts the history of this fundamental human right, from the constitutional system that was designed to protect it by limiting government's powers, to the Civil War Amendments that expanded protection to all Americans, regardless of race. It then focuses on the Progressive-era judges who began to erode those protections, and concludes with today's controversies over abusive occupational licensing laws, freedom of speech in advertising, regulatory takings, and much more.
Product Details
Price
$25.95
$24.13
Publisher
Cato Institute
Publish Date
August 16, 2010
Pages
359
Dimensions
6.18 X 9.16 X 1.25 inches | 1.68 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781935308331
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Timothy Sandefur is a staff attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation, for which he represented the Bugryn and Pappas families in the Kelo v. New London case. He has written articles on eminent domain for the Washington Times, National Review Online, and Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. A graduate of Chapman University School of Law, he has received the Claremont Institute's Ronald Reagan Medal for his work in public-interest law. He lives in Rescue, California.