Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents XIII
4. Part One. Introduction
5. I. Economic Liberty and the State 3
6. II. The Legal Bases of Economic Inequality 13
7. Part Two. Common-Law Adjustments of Conflicting Economic Liberties
8. III. State and Federal Courts as Sources of Common Law 41
9. IV. Courts as Policy-Makers in the Defining of Rights and Duties 49
10. V. Malicious Wrongs, Prima Facie Torts, and Conspiracies 55
11. VI. Judicial Modification of Legal Duties 95
12. VII. Extortion and Duress 109
13. Part Three. The Protection which the Constitution Affords to Economic Liberty and Equality
14. VIII. The Process of Expounding and Enforcing the Constitution 137
15. IX. Constitutional Provisions for the Protection of Individual Economic Interests 189
16. X. Constitutional and Unconstitutional Methods of Depriving Persons of Liberty or Property 255
17. XI. Constitutional Safeguards Against Private Coercive Power 318
18. Part Four. Political Processes for Adjusting Conflicting Liberties
19. XII. The Power to Restrict One Liberty in Order to Expand Another 385
20. XIII. The Prices Which a State May Control 400
21. XIV. The Constitutionality of Wage Regulation 430
22. XV. The “Fair Value” Fallacy in Rate-Making 461
23. XVI. Utility Regulation and Taxation as Correctives of Economic Maladjustments 501
24. Part Five. Conclusion
25. XVII. Economic Liberty in a Democracy 541
26. Table of Cases 551
27. Index 565