James R Hackney

Under Cover of Science

American Legal-Economic Theory and the Quest for Objectivity

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Produktbeschreibung

""Under Cover of Science" is a sweeping intellectual history that relates the development of law and economics to science and its claims to objectivity. James R. Hackney Jr. ranges from Newton to Darwin to Einstein, and from classical economics to institutional economics to neoclassical economics. I cannot think of another book that so extensively explores the history of the interrelations of law and economics."--Stephen M. Feldman, author of "American Legal Thought from Premodernism to Postmodernism: An Intellectual Voyage"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 162mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822339816
• ISBN-10: 0822339811
• Artikelnr.: 22527669

Autorenporträt

James R. Hackney Jr. is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Northeastern University School of Law.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue. The Structure of American Legal-Economic Theory xiii
1. Modern Science, Classical Thought, and the Birth of American
Legal-Economic Theory 1
2. The Pragmatic Reconstruction of American Legal-Economic Theory 39
3. Neoclassicism and the Reprise of Formalism 81
4. The Dissolution of American Legal-Economic Theory 121
Epilogue. Gazing into the Future and Our Postmodern Times 157
Notes 175
Index 227