The Origins of Law And Economics: Essays By The Founding Fathers (The Locke Institute)
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Book Description
This unique collection of largely unpublished papers brings together the founding fathers of law and economics to provide their own views on the origins and intellectual history of the field. Law and economics emerged as a separate field of scholarship during the early 1960s, fueled by two seminal papers, one by Ronald Coase and one by Guido Calabresi. The ideas generated by scholars researching in the field have deeply influenced the major disciplines of economics and the law. These 16 essays (including three by Nobel Laureates in economic sciences) provide an impressive blend of differing experiences and varying perspectives, reflecting on the intellectual foundations of the field, its early struggles for recognition, and its remarkable advance during the last four decades of the twentieth century, and into the twenty-first. The essays clearly outline, and contribute new insights into, all of the central issues of this still vibrant research program. A unifying theme of the book is the central importance attached by each scholar to scientific analysis, rather than to any particular ideology or dogma. This book provides an absorbing intellectual history of law and economics, and will be a fascinating read for academics and researchers with an interest in law and economics, the history of economic thought, public choice and public policy.
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Edited by Francesco Parisi, Professor of Law, George Mason University and University of Milan, Italy and Associate Director, Program in Economics, Politics and the Law, James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University and Charles K. Rowley, General Director, The Locke Institute, Duncan Black Professor of Economics and Director, Program in Economics, Politics and the Law, James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, George Mason University
The Origins of Law And Economics: Essays By The Founding Fathers (The Locke Institute),Francesco Parisi,Charles Kershaw Rowley,Edward Elgar Publishing,1840649631,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Economics - General,General,History,Law,Law and economics,Civil law (general works),Economics
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