Katja Langenbucher

Economic Transplants

On Lawmaking for Corporations and Capital Markets

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Offers a comprehensive theory on the risks and benefits of incorporating economic theory in capital markets and corporate lawmaking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781107081802
• ISBN-10: 1107081807
• Artikelnr.: 48686049

Autorenporträt

Katja Langenbucher holds a full professorship for Private Law, Corporate and Financial Law in Goethe-University's House of Finance and is an affiliated professor at Sciences Po, Paris. She was awarded the Alfred Grosser Chaire, Sciences Po, Paris in 2008-9. She was a Research Fellow at London School of Economics and Political Science in 2012-13. Langenbucher was a guest professor at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien and Universität Wien, Vienna in 2015 and an International Visiting Professor at Columbia Law School in 2016. She is a member of the supervisory board of Deutsche Postbank and a committee member at Alte Leipziger - Hallesche Group.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. The Promises of Economic Transplants: 1. Economic methodology, its scientific turn and the question 'which economics'
2. Economic imperialism
3. Law and its methodology
4. The promises of economic transplants
Part II. Economic Transplants and Legislation: 5. The promises and the legislator
6. Formal modelling and the problem of predictions
7. Empirical work and the problem of descriptions
8. Promises revisited and embracing complexity
Part III. Economic Transplants and Adjudication: 9. Promises and the judiciary
10. Promises revisited. Conclusion and a different promise.