Free Markets Under Siege: Cartels, Politics, and Social Welfare

by Richard A. Epstein

Book Overview

In this Hoover Classics reissue, Richard Epstein draws on his extensive knowledge of history, law, and economics to examine how best to regulate the interface between market choice and government intervention. With clarity, force, and wit, Epstein provides an illuminating analysis of some of the ways that special interest groups, with the help of sympathetic politicians, have been able to manipulate free markets in their favor.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081794611X
• ISBN13: 9780817946111
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Hoover Institution Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.7" x 7.4"