LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Child Protection, Carrie Underwood, Brian Dickson
22 Mar 2016
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Casebook 12 (a)-(d)-chapter 6 vago & nelson-casebook 16 (a)-(b) Always at best interest of powerful in society. (banning people who sleep under the bridge). Economic sociology: how law and capitalism are connection. (weber) Milton friedman: world runs by individuals achievingno trust for anyone to run our society, the only way we can successfully run society is through self interest and greed, that is the only way we have virtue. All other societies have created masses under dictatorship, only in capitalism modern societies we see a life of freedom. It"s relative calculability (predictability)- depends on business, ensures strong regulation. It"s power to develop substantive provisions (contracts, with binding and coercive usages)-for capitalism to happen, state power must be increased. This system is operated by egoistic wills (virtue, competitive, etc) and the use of coercive instruments (scheduled regulation) in events of non-performance. Assumed that best way to enhance freedom is conflict and competition.
