Law, Economics and Evolutionary Theory

Edited by Peer Zumbansen and Gralf-Peter Calliess

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Abstract: Law and economics has arguably become one of the most influential theories in contemporary legal theory and adjudication. The essays in this volume, authored by both legal scholars and economists, constitute lively and critical engagements between law and economics and new institutional economics from the perspectives of legal and evolutionary theory. The result is a fresh look at core concepts in law and economics – such as ‘institutions’, ‘institutional change’ and ‘market failure‘ – that offer new perspectives on the relationship between economic and legal governance.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 9781848448230
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Economic Growth

Joel Mokyr

Ch 2 The Unbearable Lightness of A – Useful Knowledge and Economic Growth

Thráinn Eggertsson

Ch 3 The Law Merchant’s Story: How Romantic is it?

Bruce Benson

Ch 4 Path Dependence: A Foundational Concept for Historical Social Science

Paul David

Ch 5 System and Evolution in Corporate Governance

Simon Deakin and Fabio Carvalho

Ch 6 Constitutional Possibility and Constitutional Evolution

Eric A. Posner

Ch 7 The Expressive Power of Adjudication in an Evolutionary Context

Richard H. McAdams

Ch 8 Forces Shaping the Evolution of Private Legal Systems

Amitai Aviram

Ch 9 Legal Evolution between Stability and Change

Martina Eckardt

Ch 10 The Genesis of Law: On the Paradox of Law’s Origin and its Supplément

Marc Amstutz

Ch 11 Gene-Culture Co-Evolutionary Theory and the Evolution of Legal Behavior and Institutions

Bart Du Laing

Ch 12 Making Evolutionary Theory Useful for Legal Actors

Mauro Zamboni

Ch 13 Transnational Commercial Law, Multi-level Legal Systems, and Evolutionary Economics

Wolfgang Kerber

Ch 14 Darwin at Work: How to Explain Legal Change in Transnational and European Private Law

Jan M. Smits

Ch 15 Linking Extra-legal Codes to Law: The Role of International Standards and Other Off-the-track Regimes

Erich Schanze

Ch 16 Transnational Governance and Evolutionary Theory

Gralf-Peter Calliess, Jörg Freiling and Moritz Renner

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