Origins of Law and Economics - The Economists' New Science of Law, 1830-1930 (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)

Heath Pearson

Cambridge University Press

2005

216 páginas

7h 12m

ISBN-13: 9780521023863

In the 1830's, the "new science of law" aimed to explain the working rules of human society by using the methodologically individual terms of economic discourse. Practitioners were inclined to admit altruistic values, bounded rationality, and institutional inertia into their research programs.