Deals with the legal elements in the history of the system of money from 1774 to 1970, looking closely at the benefits and detriments that have accrued to that system from legal interventions.

The History of Corporate Law by the Foremost Legal Historian, James Willard Hurst This study, which is based on a series of lectures delivered at the University of Virginia Law School, explores the development of corporate law from the 1780s, a time when the special charter was the only form of incorporation, to the 1960s, a time when corporations were established exclusively through general incorporation statutes. More than a chronicle, Hurst emphasizes how legal institutions actively shaped the central traits of American capitalism. CONTENTS Analytical Table of Contents Introduction: Time,...

The first contemporary history of the development of American law. A survey of the nature and success of the institution of American law and its agencies and legislative bodies from roughly 1740-1940. Considered ..".a pioneering attempt to evaluate in broad terms the contributions to the development of American law made by its five chief formative agencies, the legislatures, the courts, the constitution-making process, the bar and the executive." William F. Fracher, Mo. L. Rev. 15:332-333. By the major legal historian whose writings led ..". scholars from other disciplines... to look at law...

The eminent legal scholar James Willard Hursts sociological analysis of the relation between law and private business in relation to society at large

Hurst argues that law and business support the same goals of efficiency and humanity, and examines their interrelationship toward that end in terms of ethical issues related to public policy, money supply, the impact of incremental change, inflation and deflation, monopoly and competition, and other economic factors. Based on Hursts lectures at The
University of Wisconsin in April, 1981.

James Willard Hurst [1910-1997] is widely recognized as...