Design of Constitutions (Economic Approaches to Law series, 36) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857937901 ISBN 13: 9780857937902

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Almost anywhere in the world, new constitutions are written and passed at almost any time. Over the last couple of years, an increasing number of economists have analyzed constitutions based on an economic approach with an emphasis firstly on the (economic) effects of constitutions and followed by the factors determining their content. The contributions assembled in this volume go one step further: they ask how the knowledge gained over the last number of years can usefully be applied to constitutional design. This new branch could also be termed applied constitutional economics. Along with an original introduction, Professor Voigt has compiled a valuable research collection that will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in this growing field.

23 articles, dating from 1995 to 2010
Contributors include: B. Ackerman, A. Alesina, R. Congleton, T. Ginsburg, D. Mueller, T. Persson, D. Rubinfeld, G. Tabellini, B. Weingast

About this title

About the Author:

Edited by Stefan Voigt, Director, Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, Germany

Review:

This particular work presents - in one handy and copiously footnoted hardback volume - no less than 23 of the most authoritative and ground-breaking essays and articles currently available on this relatively new avenue of economic and legal research, published by a judicious selection of the world's top universities. . . If you re a lawyer, economic adviser, policy maker, student or academic, you should acquire this book. --Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor, The Barrister Magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0857937901
• ISBN 13: 9780857937902
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 780
• Editor: Voigt Stefan