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The Legal-economic Nexus

Fundamental Processes

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Published: 22nd February 2007
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Providing another key contribution to the immensely popular field of law and economics, this book, written by the doyen of the history of economic thought in the US, explores the dynamic relationship between economics, law and polity.


Combining a selection of old and new essays by Warren J. Samuels that chart a number of key themes, it provides an important commentary on the development of an academic field and demonstrates how policy is structured and manipulated by human social construction. The areas covered include:





  • the role of manufactured belief

  • power

  • the nature and sources of rights

  • the construction of markets by firms and governments and the problem of continuity and change in the form of the question of the selectively defined status quo and its status

  • the absolutist character of government, rights, markets and legal principles and the accepted ideational structure of law.



The Legal-Economic Nexus is an essential read both economists and legal professionals as well as those researching the history of economic thought and the social construction of law.

Rights, Markets and Power: The Legal-Economic Nexus
Introduction: Belief and Power
The Legal-Economic Nexus
The Nature and Sources of Rights
Markets and their Social Construction
The Problem of Order
Joseph J. Spengler's Concept of the 'Problem of Order': A Reconsideration and Extension
The Status of the Status Quo: The Buchanan Colloquium
The Problem of the Status of the Status Quo: Some Comments
Two Views of Government: A Conversation
Language, Social Choice and Order
Some Problems in the Use of Language in Economics
Poletown and Hathcock : An Essay on Some Problems in the Language of the Law
An Evolutionary Approach to Law and Economics
The Rule of Law and the Capture and Use of Government in a World of Inequality
Land and Governance: The Transformation of Order
The Duke of Argyll and Edwin L. Godkin as Precursors to Hayek on the Relation of Ignorance to Policy, Parts I-IV
The Duke of Argyll and Henry George: Land Ownership and Governance
The Subtleties of Policy Making
The Pervasitve Proposition, 'What Is, Is and Ought To Be'. A Critique
What Is, Is What?
Professional Policy Advocacy or Policy Diffidence?
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ISBN: 9780415771795
ISBN-10: 041577179X
Series: The Economics of Legal Relationships
Audience: Professional
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 512
Published: 22nd February 2007
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6  x 3.3
Weight (kg): 0.88