Table of Contents

1: Constitutional Structure and Functions; 2: Objective Theory of Interpretation: Textual Analysis in Social Context; 3: Judicial Review of Legislation: Scope and Limits; 4: Commerce Clause: Textual Meaning and Judicial Misconstruction; 5: Commerce Clause: Federalism and the Regulation of State Transactions; 6: The Commerce Clause and the Law Merchant: Law of Nations; 7: Constitutional Privileges and Immunities: The Ninth Amendment and the Antimonopoly Tradition; 8: Procedural Essence of Due Process: Judicial Error of Substantive Scope; 9: Injunctions against Labor Unions: Antitrust and Due Process; 10: Equal Protection Clause: Rights of Persons and Firms

About the Author

Michael Conant is professor emeritus at Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley. He is the author of Constitutional Structure and Purposes and The Constitution and the Economy: Objective Theory and Critical Commentary.

Reviews

-Outstanding Title! Conant (emer., University of California, Berkeley) offers an expansive view of the regulatory powers of the US Congress, as defined by the US Constitution, for correcting market failure (i.e., lack of competition, asymmetric information, externalities, and public goods). He argues that the framers' intent, as well as those who ratified subsequent amendments, was to provide Congress sufficient power to counter the narrow interests of the states and specific industries, (mostly) to promote market competition. Conant's argument is comprehensive and well-reasoned and -researched... [T]his is an important and extraordinary contribution to the debate on the proper role of government in facilitating market exchange. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections.- --M. Steckbeck, Choice -Michael Conant's The Constitution and Economic Regulation is an insightful, well researched book. I enjoyed it, and I think legal scholars, philosophers of science, and economists will read with delight.- --Scott A. Beaulier, Stenson School of Business and Economics, Mercer University

"Outstanding Title! Conant (emer., University of California, Berkeley) offers an expansive view of the regulatory powers of the US Congress, as defined by the US Constitution, for correcting market failure (i.e., lack of competition, asymmetric information, externalities, and public goods). He argues that the framers' intent, as well as those who ratified subsequent amendments, was to provide Congress sufficient power to counter the narrow interests of the states and specific industries, (mostly) to promote market competition. Conant's argument is comprehensive and well-reasoned and -researched... [T]his is an important and extraordinary contribution to the debate on the proper role of government in facilitating market exchange. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections." --M. Steckbeck, Choice "Michael Conant's The Constitution and Economic Regulation is an insightful, well researched book. I enjoyed it, and I think legal scholars, philosophers of science, and economists will read with delight." --Scott A. Beaulier, Stenson School of Business and Economics, Mercer University

"Outstanding Title! Conant (emer., University of California, Berkeley) offers an expansive view of the regulatory powers of the US Congress, as defined by the US Constitution, for correcting market failure (i.e., lack of competition, asymmetric information, externalities, and public goods). He argues that the framers' intent, as well as those who ratified subsequent amendments, was to provide Congress sufficient power to counter the narrow interests of the states and specific industries, (mostly) to promote market competition. Conant's argument is comprehensive and well-reasoned and -researched... [T]his is an important and extraordinary contribution to the debate on the proper role of government in facilitating market exchange. Summing Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections." --M. Steckbeck, Choice "Michael Conant's "The Constitution and Economic Regulation "is an insightful, well researched book. I enjoyed it, and I think legal scholars, philosophers of science, and economists will read with delight." --Scott A. Beaulier, Stenson School of Business and Economics, Mercer University

"Michael Conant's "The Constitution and Economic Regulation " is an insightful, well researched book. I enjoyed it, and I think legal scholars, philosophers of science, and economists will read with delight."
-- Scott A. Beaulier, Stenson School of Business and Economics, Mercer University