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Death of Common Sense by Philip K Howard

Death of Common Sense

How Law Is Suffocating America

Philip K Howard

Grand Central Publishing · Print & ebook · March 1, 1996

This concise and eloquent manifesto shows how the excess of government regulations does not protect Americans but instead acts as legal quicksand, stifling growth and creating paralyzing overbureaucratization.

Political CommentaryLibertarianismPublic Administration
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Genres
Political Commentary, Libertarianism, Public Administration
Published
Grand Central Publishing, March 1, 1996

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About this book

This concise and eloquent manifesto shows how the excess of government regulations does not protect Americans but instead acts as legal quicksand, stifling growth and creating paralyzing overbureaucratization. Using blood-boiling examples of government regulations run amok, Howard reveals a society in which rules have replaced thinking--allowing law to infiltrate the nooks and crannies of everyday life.

Why It Clicks

Come here for

  • Law, rules, and bureaucracy
  • A practical, argument-forward read

Expect

  • Big-government skepticism
  • Useful as a reference shelf companion

Where it sits

Political Commentary31%
Libertarianism23%
Public Administration23%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Social Science
Authors
Philip K Howard
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Published
March 1, 1996
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Social Science