Norms and the Law

Richard H. McAdams and Eric Rasmusen ()

Chapter 20 in Handbook of Law and Economics, 2007, vol. 2, pp 1573-1618 from Elsevier

Abstract: Everyone realizes the importance of social norms as guides to behavior and substitutes for law, but coming up with a paradigm for analyzing norms has been surprisingly difficult, as has systematic empirical study. In this chapter we survey the topic.

Keywords: law; and; education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
ISBN: 978-0-444-53120-9
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