Pro-Business Agenda Threatens Consumer Legal Funding

By Jeremy Kidd, Walter F. George School of Law (May 1, 2017, 7:19 PM EDT) -- In 1776, the world's greatest experiment in political and economic liberty was set into motion. That year, colonies that would become the United States declared their independence from the British Empire, and Adam Smith wrote what many consider the foundation of modern economics — An Inquiry in the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations — laying the foundation for free market theory. These two events led to the creation of America as we know it today, an incredibly prosperous society where the standard of living of an average American is so high that it would be unrecognizable to the wealthiest person on earth in 1776....

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