Economics and the Law: From Posner to Post-Modernism - Brossura

Mercuro, Nicholas; Medema, Steven G.

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ISBN 10: 0691005443 ISBN 13: 9780691005447

Casa editrice: Princeton University Press, 1999

Riassunto

This text presents a concise overview of the current perspectives and varied traditions that constitute the evolving field of law and economics. The authors make it clear that the field is not a homogenous movement by illuminating the several competing and yet complementary traditions within it, including the Chicago School of Law and Economics, Public Choice Theory, Institutional and Neo-Institutional Law and Economics, the New Haven School and Modern Civic Republicanism, as well as the Critical Legal Studies' challenge to Law and Economics. By providing readers with a noncritical description of the broad contours of each school of thought, the authors convey a strong sense of the important elements of these interrelated yet varied traditions. The authors define "law and economics" broadly to include the application of economic theory (primarily microeconomics and the basic concepts of welfare economics) to the formation, structure, processes and economic impact of law and legal institutions. Since the law and the economy interact across a variety of fronts, the fundamental insights of their burgeoning field have important implications, not only for economics, but also for those in such contiguous disciplines as political science, public administration and sociology.

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"`You can't tell the players without a scorecard,' or so vendors at a baseball game say, and the Mercuro and Medema book under review provides team scorecards and much more: intellectual histories and outlines of the dominant styles of play by the Chicago School and its New Haven opponents, the public choice school and its civic republican opposition, institutional and neoinstitutional economics, and critical legal studies as a postmodern counterweight to the various economics enterprises."--Paul H. Brietzke, Valparaiso University Law Review

"[This book] provides an excellent introduction to the broad contours of Law and Economics.... It can be especially recommended to readers interested in short but very informative overviews on different aspects of this discipline."--Hans-Bernd Schäfer, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics

"The authors' primary goal, which they achieve admirably, is to provide a concise review of the major scholarly traditions that use economic analysis of the law. . . . [T]he descriptions of each tradition are clear and painstakingly evenhanded. . . . This brief volume provides a sound understanding of each tradition's virtues and weaknesses."--Constitutional Political Economy

Contenuti:

	Preface
Ch. 1	The Jurisprudential Niche of Law and Economics	3
Ch. 2	Chicago Law and Economics	51
Ch. 3	Public Choice Theory	84
Ch. 4	Institutional Law and Economics	101
Ch. 5	Neoinstitutional Law and Economics	130
Ch. 6	Critical Legal Studies	157
Ch. 7	Continuous Development and Continuing Concerns	171
	Notes	191
	Bibliography	207
	Name Index	229
	Subject Index	233

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• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0691005443
• ISBN 13: 9780691005447
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 248