Aristides Hatzis

Law and Economics

Philosophical Issues and Fundamental Questions
Herausgeber: Hatzis, Aristides N; Mercuro, Nicholas

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Produktbeschreibung

Why has Law and Economics movement become successful? What is the status of the Chicago School? What are the alternative theories and how much influence do they exert? What can be considered mainstream? What are the norms and values underlying this impressive body of research? This book explores these issues, amongst others.

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The Law and Economics approach to law dominates the intellectual discussion of nearly every doctrinal area of law in the US and its influence is growing steadily throughout Europe, Asia and South America. Numerous academics and practitioners are working in the field with a flow of uninterrupted scholarship that is unprecedented as is its influence on the law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780415404105
• ISBN-10: 041540410X
• Artikelnr.: 31080966

Autorenporträt

Aristides N. Hatzis is an Associate Professor of Legal Theory at the University of Athens, Greece. Nicholas Mercuro is Professor of Law in Residence ath the Michigan State University College of Law and Member of the faculty of James Madison College, Michigan State University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Norms and Values in the Economic Approach to Law 2. Flawed Foundations:
The Philosophical Critique of (a Particular Type of) Economics 3. Norms and
Values in the Study of Law 4. The Dominance of Norms 5. From Dismal to
Dominance? 6. Beyond The Law-And-Economics Approach - From Dismal To
Democratic 7. Functional Law and Economics: The Search for Value-Neutral
Principles of Lawmaking 8. Law & Economics: Systems of Social Control,
Managed Drift, and the Dilemma of Rent Seeking in a Representative
Democracy 9. Autonomy, Welfare, and the Pareto Principle 10. Any Normative
Policy Analysis Not Based on Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency Violates Scholarly
Transparency Norms 11. Law and Economics, the Moral Limits of the Market,
and Threshold Deontology 12. Moral Externalities: An Economic Approach to
the Legal Enforcement of Morality 13. Engagement with Economics: The New
Hybrids of Family Law/Law & Economics Thinking 14. The Figure of the Judge
in Law and Economics 15. Behavioral Law and Economics: Its Origins, Fatal
Flaws, and Implications for Liberty