The US law and economics movement emerged to counter perceived judicial hostility toward corporations.

Evidence

Another related effort to shift attention to problems of “the state” during the heyday of social liberalism was the “law and economics” movement in the United States, prominently promoted by right-wing foundations in support of MPS member Henry Manne. Law and economics was originally developed to turn the perceived hostility of U.S. law toward corporations into a more pragmatic conversation to educate legal scholars and judges (Miller 2006). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 15

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with my interest in how right-wing foundations deliberately funded academic programs — parallels the funding pipelines discussed in the tobacco-science and climate-skepticism literature. — connects to: The Chicago Antitrust Project seeded figures who later shaped US jurisprudence — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1187

Broader Connections

• The Chicago Antitrust Project seeded figures who later shaped US jurisprudence #expands (0.82) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1187