Order without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes
Brand: Harvard University Press
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Dimensions: 6.12 x 0.78 x 9.23 inches
ISBN-13: 978-0674641693
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0674641698
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Print length: 316 pages
Publication date: March 15, 1994
author: Visit Amazon's Robert C. Ellickson Page search results Robert C. Ellickson
review: Editorial Reviews Review “This immensely interesting, wide-ranging, well-written, learned, and contentious book―a superb analysis of extralegal regulation―will command a large readership among academic lawyers and social scientists, and may in the fullness of time come to be regarded as a classic of interdisciplinary legal scholarship.” ― Richard A. Posner, Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit “A welcome addition to the new literature on conflict, law, and informal social control in contemporary societies… [ Order without Law ] constitutes one of the most eloquent and powerful attacks yet on the widespread belief that government lies at the heart of social order in the modern world.” ― M. P. Baumgartner , Contemporary Sociology “Uses theory and ethnography to explain norms in a manner that sociologists would do well to imitate. [Ellickson] presents evidence in an objective style that allows readers to reach their own verdicts, and his skillful storytelling accentuates his theoretical acumen.” ― Jason Jimerson , American Journal of Sociology “[A] fascinating book… Ellickson’s clean prose and considerate rhetorical style are refreshing.” ― William Fischel , Land Economics From the Back Cover Ellickson shows that people govern themselves largely by means of informal rules-social norms-without the aid of a state or other central coordinator. Integrating the latest scholarship in law, economics, sociology, game theory, and anthropology, Ellickson investigates the uncharted world within which order is successfully achieved without law.