Freedom Reined: The Progressive Era Through the Public Interest Era
Freedom Reined: The Progressive Era Through the Public Interest Era
This chapter explains that the statutory changes of the Progressive, New Deal, and Public Interest Eras came in response to perceived crises in the political economy as manifested in media reports of widespread corporate abuses. Guided by the insights of Progressive Era legal realists, state supreme courts abandoned many Laissez Faire Era legal doctrines that limited corporate liability. Cumulatively, the statutes imposed broad obligations on companies to pay far more attention to the impact of their products and activities on their consumers, workers, neighbors, and the environment than they had in the past. Although the changes mandated by the new statutes rarely demanded more than what was already technologically feasible, they greatly improved the lives of most Americans.
Keywords: statutory changes, Progressive Era, New Deal, Public Interest Eras, political economy, corporate abuses, Laissez Faire Era
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