Risks And Wrongs - Softcover

Coleman, Jules L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199253617 ISBN 13: 9780199253616

Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr (Txt), 2002

Synopsis

This classic book by one of America's preeminent legal theorists is concerned with the conflict between the goals of justice and economic efficiency in the allocation of risk, especially risk pertaining to safety. The author approaches his subject from the premise that the market is central to liberal political, moral, and legal theory. In the first part of the book, he rejects traditional rational choice liberalism in favor of the view that the market operates as a rational way of fostering stable relationships and institutions within communities of individuals with broadly divergent conceptions of the good. However, markets are needed most where they are most difficult to create and sustain, and one way to understand contract law in liberal legal theory, according to Professor Coleman, is as an institution designed to reduce uncertainty and thereby make markets possible.

About this title

Book Description:

One of America's most eminent legal theorists is concerned here with the conflict between the goals of justice and economic efficiency in the allocation of risk within this major new study for theorists in philosophy, law, political science, and economics.

About the Author:

Jules L. Coleman is Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence and the Philosophy of Law, Yale University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr (Txt)
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0199253617
• ISBN 13: 9780199253616
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 508