基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2005. A unique collection of largely unpublished papers including three by Nobel Laureates in economic sciences. Contributors include: G. Becker, J. M. Buchanan, R. H. Coase, R. A. Epstein, R. A. Posner, G. Tullock, et al.
Full 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This unique collection of largely unpublished papers brings together the founding fathers of law and economics to provide their own views on the origins and intellectual history of the field.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 programme. 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.
Contents
Contents:
PART I: INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS
1. An Intellectual History of Law and Economics: 1739-2003
Charles K. Rowley
2. Methodological Debates in Law and Economics: The Changing Contours of a Discipline
Francesco Parisi
3. The Fire of Truth: A Remembrance of Law and Economics at Chicago, 1932-1970
Edmund W. Kitch
PART II: ESSAYS BY THE FOUNDING FATHERS
4. The Economics Way of Looking at Behavior
Gary S. Becker
5. Cost, Choice, and Catallaxy: An Evaluation of Two Related but Divergent Virginia Paradigms
James M. Buchanan
6. The Pointlessness of Pareto: Carrying Coase Further
Guido Calabresi
7. The Relevance of Transaction Costs in the Economic Analysis of Law
Ronald H. Coase
8. The Confluence of Justice and Efficiency in the Economic Analysis of Law
Robert D. Cooter
9. Toward a Theory of Property Rights II: The Competition Between Private and Collective Ownership
Harold Demsetz
10. The Economist in Spite of Himself
Richard A. Epstein
11. The Art of Law and Economics: An Autobiographical Essay
William M. Landes
12. How Law and Economics was Marketed in a Hostile World: A Very Personal History
Henry G. Manne
13. The Law and Economics Movement: From Bentham to Becker
Richard A. Posner
14. The Rise of Law and Economics: A Memoir of the Early Years
George L. Priest
15. Why was the Common Law Efficient?
Paul H. Rubin
16. Law Versus Morality as Regulators of Conduct
Steven Shavell
17. Journeys Across the Divides
Michael J. Trebilcock
18. The Case Against the Common Law
Gordon Tullock
19. Why Law, Economics, and Organization?
Oliver E. Williamson
Index
