Pioneers of Law and Economics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857935445 ISBN 13: 9780857935441

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

The law and economics movement came of age in the second half of the 20th century and had a profound effect on both the scholarship and practice of law. The specially commissioned essays in this book honor the pioneering contributions of those who created the foundation of the modern law and economics enterprise.

The editors of the volume embrace a view of the field that is inclusive not only of a broad range of issues, but also of economic methods. Celebrated here are the founders of law and economics as well as economic theorists, public choice scholars, lawyers and judges who applied economic insights to the law and legal institutions. They include: Ronald Coase, Aaron Director, George Stigler, Armen Alchian, Harold Demsetz, Benjamin Klein, James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, Henry Manne, Richard Posner, Gary Becker, William Landes, Richard Epstein, Guido Calabresi, Frank Easterbrook, Daniel Fischel, Steven Shavell and A. Mitchell Polinsky. Contributors to the volume include other pioneers, former students and clerks, colleagues, and influential scholars in the field.

Scholars and students working in the tradition of law and economics, as well as those in the fields of economics, law and public policy will find the book an essential reference for this important area of scholarship.

Contributors: H. Demsetz, N. Garoupa, F. Gomez-Pomar, M.F. Grady, T.W. Hazlett, K.N. Hylton, K.V. Litvak, A.P. Morriss, S. Peltzman, J.F. Pfaff, L.E. Ribstein, S.M. Stigler, R.D. Tollison, T.S. Ulen, S. Woodward, J.D. Wright

About this title

About the Author:

Edited by Lloyd R. Cohen, Professor and Joshua D. Wright, Assistant Professor, George Mason University School of Law, US

Review:

[P]ure gems in each and every essay... Reading this book provides an intellectual framework for the history of thought in the field that until now it had sorely lacked. --Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi, American Review of Political Economy

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0857935445
• ISBN 13: 9780857935441
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Cohen Lloyd R., Wright Joshua D.