Title

You Are Living in a Gold Rush

Comments

Published in 35 Hofstra L. Rev. 417 (2007).

Abstract

This article argues that our times, characterized as they are by dreams of vast wealth, environmental destruction, and growing social inequality, resemble nothing so much as earlier get-rich-quick periods like the Gilded Age and the California gold rush.

I put forward a number of parallels between those earlier periods and now and suggest that the current fever is likely to end soon. This will come as a relief to those of you who, like me, deplore the regressive social policies, bellicose foreign relations, and coarsening of public taste that we have been living through—even if some of our more libertarian friends found the times invigorating.

Disciplines

Environmental Law | Immigration Law | Law and Politics | Law and Society

Date of this Version

August 2007

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