Simple Rules for a Complex World

"Simple Rules for a Complex World offers a sophisticated agenda for comprehensive social reform that undoes much of the mischief of the modern regulatory state. At a time when most Americans have come to distrust government at all levels, Richard Epstein shows how a consistent application of economic and political theory allows us to steer a middle path between too much and too little.

Summary

Epstein offers a sophisticated agenda for comprehensive social reform that undoes much of the mischief of the modern regulatory state. At a time when most Americans have come to distrust government at all levels, Epstein shows how a consistent application of economic and political theory allows us to steer between too much and too little.

Product details

• Authors: Richard A. Epstein
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.1997
• EAN: 9780674808218
• ISBN: 978-0-674-80821-8
• No. of pages: 378
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, LAW / Remedies & Damages, United States of America, USA, Jurisprudence & general issues, Political science and theory, Central / national / federal government, Economic theory and philosophy, Methods, theory and philosophy of law