Law and Social Economics [electronic resource] : Essays in Ethical Values for Theory, Practice, and Policy /
White, M.editor.
This edited volume is the first collection of essays exploring the intersection of social economics and the law, providing alternatives to neoclassical law-and-economics and applying them to real-world issues. Law is a social enterprise concerned with values such as justice, dignity, and equality, as well as efficiency - which is the same way that social economists conceive of the economy itself. Social economists and legal scholars alike need to acknowledge the interrelationship between the economy and the law in a broader ethical context than enabled by mainstream law-and-economics. The ten chapters in Law and Social Economics, written by an international assortment of scholars from economics, philosophy, and law, employ a wide variety of approaches and methods to show how a more ethically nuanced approach to economics and the law can illuminate both fields and open up new avenues for studying social-economic behavior, policy, and outcomes in all their ethical and legal complexity.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I Foundations; Chapter 1 Toward a Contractarian Theory of Law; Chapter 2 Environmental Ethics, Economics, and Property Law; Chapter 3 Individual Rights, Economic Transactions, and Recognition:; Chapter 4 Institutionalist Method and Forensic Proof; Chapter 5 Retributivist Justice and Dignity: ; Part II Applications; Chapter 6 Female Genital Mutilation and the Law: ; Chapter 7 An Unexamined Oxymoron: ; Chapter 8 On the Question of Court Activism and Economic Interests in Nineteenth-Century Married Women's Property Law
Chapter 9 Divergent Outcomes of Land Rights Claims of Indigenous Peoples in the United StatesChapter 10 Punitive (and) Pain-and-Suffering Damages in Brazil; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
This edited volume is the first collection of essays exploring the intersection of social economics and the law, providing alternatives to neoclassical law-and-economics and applying them to real-world issues. Law is a social enterprise concerned with values such as justice, dignity, and equality, as well as efficiency - which is the same way that social economists conceive of the economy itself. Social economists and legal scholars alike need to acknowledge the interrelationship between the economy and the law in a broader ethical context than enabled by mainstream law-and-economics. The ten chapters in Law and Social Economics, written by an international assortment of scholars from economics, philosophy, and law, employ a wide variety of approaches and methods to show how a more ethically nuanced approach to economics and the law can illuminate both fields and open up new avenues for studying social-economic behavior, policy, and outcomes in all their ethical and legal complexity.
Economic theory.
Law.
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.
Law, general.