Limited Government, Individual Liberty and the Rule of Law

Selected Works of Arthur Asher Shenfield, edited by Norman Barry (1998)

This volume offers a selection of the works of one of the most persuasive and sophisticated theorists of the free economy and free society, Arthur Asher Shenfield.

Arthur Asher Shenfield was a classical liberal and an astute critic of misguided government intervention in a free economy. He produced sophisticated refutations of both full-blooded socialism and welfarism pioneered in Scandinavia and Western Europe. He was a keen observer of American affairs and included here is a selection of his essays on constitutionalism and law in the United States. These essays trace the decline in legal protection that America has given economic agents and examine the rise of socialist influences in the American judiciary system. Shenfield also offers a robust account of the legal and economic effect of US and European anti-trust law, as well as discussing the adverse effect on economic efficiency caused by trade unions.

In these essays, Arthur Asher Shenfield has made the law and economics of a free society accessible to businessmen and policy makers as well as to scholars and students of classical liberal philosophy and law.

Read Reviews of this Book:

Milton Friedman, Hoover Institution
James Buchanan, George Mason University
Allister Heath, Hertford College, Oxford University, Journal of The Institute of Economic Affairs
William H. Peterson, Ideas on Liberty