A robust study of US legal history from the Constitution to Reconstruction shows up the myth of laissez faire in the US. Ditto for a study of English and French legal history. When Ricardo wrote "to determine the laws..." he was speaking of the legal/policy regime[s] of control rather than some nomological invariants to be discovered by political economists.
A robust study of US legal history from the Constitution to Reconstruction shows up the myth of laissez faire in the US. Ditto for a study of English and French legal history. When Ricardo wrote "to determine the laws..." he was speaking of the legal/policy regime[s] of control rather than some nomological invariants to be discovered by political economists.