Acknowledgements -- About the authors -- Introduction / Stephen Balch and Benjamin Powell -- Crisis and government power -- Crisis without leviathan? / Robert Higgs -- The rule of law during times of economic crisis / Todd Zywicki -- Fiscal crisis -- Fiscal crisis as a quality of progressivist...

A central goal of any economy is to achieve rapid and sustained growth. This cannot happen without continued innovation. This landmark Handbook brings together many of the world’s legal scholars to examine features of the legal infrastructure that affect both innovation and growth. Individual...