Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and growth of the factory system, labour movements and foreign and domestic commerce.

Laissez faire in American thought and policy, 1763-1865 -- Herbert Spencer versus the state -- Academic and popular theorists of laissez faire -- Laissez faire and the American businessman -- Laissez faire becomes the law of the land -- The ...

This book examines the first great law and economics movement in the early part of the twentieth century through the work of one of its most original thinkers, Robert Hale.

... The Decline of Laissez - faire , 1897-1917 ( New York : Holt , Rinehart & Winston , 1951 ) , p . 115 . 16. Ibid . , p . 155 . 17. Edwin F. Gay and Leo Wolman , " Trends in Economic Organization , " in Recent Social Trends in the United ...

... the decline of railroad credit . At the opening of the century , railroads , with the possible exception of agriculture , represented the primary investment ... the deterioration was caused by increased costs 212 THE DECLINE OF LAISSEZ FAIRE.