Origins of Law and Economics
The Economists' New Science of Law, 1830–1930
Seiten
2005
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-02386-3 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-02386-3 (ISBN)
This work analyzes the centrality of law in nineteenth century historical and institutional economics and serves as a prehistory to the new institutional economics of the late twentieth century.
This work analyzes the centrality of law in nineteenth-century historical and institutional economics and is a prehistory to the new institutional economics of the late twentieth century. In the 1830s the 'new science of law' aimed to explain the working rules of human society by using the methodologically individualist terms of economic discourse, stressing determinism and evolutionism. Practitioners stood readier than contemporary institutionalists to admit the possibilities of altruistic values, bounded rationality, and institutional inertia into their research program. Professor Pearson shows that the positive analysis of law tended to push normative discussions up from the level of specific laws to that of society's political organization. The analysis suggests that the professionalization of the social sciences - and the new science's own imprecision - condemned the program to oblivion around 1930. Nonetheless, institutional economics is currently developing greater resemblances to the now-forgotten new science.
This work analyzes the centrality of law in nineteenth-century historical and institutional economics and is a prehistory to the new institutional economics of the late twentieth century. In the 1830s the 'new science of law' aimed to explain the working rules of human society by using the methodologically individualist terms of economic discourse, stressing determinism and evolutionism. Practitioners stood readier than contemporary institutionalists to admit the possibilities of altruistic values, bounded rationality, and institutional inertia into their research program. Professor Pearson shows that the positive analysis of law tended to push normative discussions up from the level of specific laws to that of society's political organization. The analysis suggests that the professionalization of the social sciences - and the new science's own imprecision - condemned the program to oblivion around 1930. Nonetheless, institutional economics is currently developing greater resemblances to the now-forgotten new science.
Introduction; 1. A new science; 2. Towards a normal science; 3. Ghosts in the machine; 4. The normative dimension: institutional success and failure; 5. The way to oblivion; 6. The 'new' new science; Epilogue: the 'new' science; Endnotes; Biographical notes; References.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.11.2005 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 333 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte |
| Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht | |
| Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte | |
| Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-521-02386-6 / 0521023866 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-521-02386-3 / 9780521023863 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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